The macroecology and evolution of avian competence for Borrelia burgdorferi

The distribution limit of the common tick, Ixodes ricinus, and some associated pathogens in north-western Europe

(2020) D. Hvidsten et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Effects of urbanization on bird migration

(2020) Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Towards a mechanistic understanding of competence: a missing link in diversity–disease research

(2020) Tara E. Stewart Merrill et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Reactivation of latent infections with migration shapes population-level disease dynamics

(2020) Daniel J. Becker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Beyond Infection: Integrating Competence into Reservoir Host Prediction

(2020) Daniel J. Becker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Taxonomic resolution affects host−parasite association model performance

(2020) Tad A. Dallas et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Confronting data sparsity to identify potential sources of Zika virus spillover infection among primates

(2019) Barbara A. Han et al.   Epidemics

Scaling of Host Competence

(2019) Cynthia J. Downs et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Phylofactorization: a graph partitioning algorithm to identify phylogenetic scales of ecological data

(2019) Alex D. Washburne et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Lyme neuroborreliosis and bird populations in northern Europe

(2019) Atle Mysterud et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Light pollution increases West Nile virus competence of a ubiquitous passerine reservoir species

(2019) Meredith E. Kernbach et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Prioritizing surveillance of Nipah virus in India

(2019) Raina K. Plowright et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

The problem of scale in the prediction and management of pathogen spillover

(2019) Daniel J. Becker et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sampling to elucidate the dynamics of infections in reservoir hosts

(2019) Raina K. Plowright et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Macroimmunology: The drivers and consequences of spatial patterns in wildlife immune defence

(2019) Daniel J. Becker et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick‐borne bacterial pathogen

(2019) Ana Cláudia Norte et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Vector competence studies with hard ticks and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato spirochetes: A review

(2019) Lars Eisen   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Failure of the Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, to serve as an experimental vector of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto

(2019) Nicole E. Breuner et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Risk factors for tick exposure in suburban settings in the Northeastern United States

(2018) P. Mead et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

HormoneBase, a population-level database of steroid hormone levels across vertebrates

(2018) Maren N. Vitousek et al.   Scientific Data

Predicting reservoir hosts and arthropod vectors from evolutionary signatures in RNA virus genomes

(2018) Simon A. Babayan et al.   SCIENCE

Lyme disease ecology in a changing world: consensus, uncertainty and critical gaps for improving control

(2017) A. Marm Kilpatrick et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Stress hormones predict a host superspreader phenotype in the West Nile virus system

(2017) Stephanie S. Gervasi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Presence of Borrelia in different populations of Ixodes pararicinus from northwestern Argentina

(2017) Maria N. Saracho Bottero et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Data-driven identification of potential Zika virus vectors

(2017) Michelle V Evans et al.   eLife

Predicting the risk of Lyme borreliosis after a tick bite, using a structural equation model

(2017) Agnetha Hofhuis et al.   PLoS One

Migratory diversity predicts population declines in birds

(2016) James J. Gilroy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Future directions in analytics for infectious disease intelligence

(2016) Barbara A Han et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Heterogeneity in pathogen transmission: mechanisms and methodology

(2016) Kimberly L. VanderWaal et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Host Competence: An Organismal Trait to Integrate Immunology and Epidemiology

(2016) Lynn B. Martin et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Modeling the Geographic Distribution ofIxodes scapularisandIxodes pacificus(Acari: Ixodidae) in the Contiguous United States

(2016) Micah B. Hahn et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

A quantitative synthesis of the role of birds in carrying ticks and tick-borne pathogens in North America

(2016) Scott R. Loss et al.   OECOLOGIA

Molecular Ecological Insights into Neotropical Bird–Tick Interactions

(2016) Matthew J. Miller et al.   PLoS One

rotl: an R package to interact with the Open Tree of Life data

(2016) François Michonneau et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Undiscovered Bat Hosts of Filoviruses

(2016) Barbara A. Han et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

A call for full annual cycle research in animal ecology

(2015) Peter P. Marra et al.   Biology Letters

An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles

(2015) Nathan P. Myhrvold et al.   ECOLOGY

Is supplementary feeding in gardens a driver of evolutionary change in a migratory bird species?

(2015) Kate E. Plummer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate change and Ixodes tick-borne diseases of humans

(2015) R. S. Ostfeld et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rodent reservoirs of future zoonotic diseases

(2015) Barbara A. Han et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The context of host competence: a role for plasticity in host–parasite dynamics

(2015) Stephanie S. Gervasi et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Conducting Meta-Analyses inRwith themetaforPackage

(2015) Wolfgang Viechtbauer   Journal of Statistical Software

Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Spirochetes in Wild Birds in Northwestern California: Associations with Ecological Factors, Bird Behavior and Tick Infestation

(2015) Erica A. Newman et al.   PLoS One

Assessing the Contribution of Songbirds to the Movement of Ticks and Borrelia burgdorferi in the Midwestern United States During Fall Migration

(2014) Sarah C. Schneider et al.   EcoHealth

EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

Life History and Demographic Drivers of Reservoir Competence for Three Tick-Borne Zoonotic Pathogens

(2014) Richard S. Ostfeld et al.   PLoS One

Estimation of the predictive power of the model in mixed-effects meta-regression: A simulation study

(2013) José Antonio López-López et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL & STATISTICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Differential sources of host species heterogeneity influence the transmission and control of multihost parasites

(2013) Daniel G. Streicker et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Borrelia chilensis, a new member of theBorrelia burgdorferisensu lato complex that extends the range of this genospecies in the Southern Hemisphere

(2013) Larisa B. Ivanova et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Species' Life-History Traits Explain Interspecific Variation in Reservoir Competence: A Possible Mechanism Underlying the Dilution Effect

(2013) Zheng Y. X. Huang et al.   PLoS One

BlackbirdsTurdus merulaas competent reservoirs forBorrelia turdiandBorrelia valaisianain Portugal: evidence from a xenodiagnostic experiment

(2013) Ana C. Norte et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis

(2012) Stephen S Morse et al.   LANCET

Relationship between pace of life and immune responses in wild rodents

(2012) M. Andrea Previtali et al.   OIKOS

Absence of Lyme Disease Spirochetes in Larval Ixodes ricinus Ticks

(2011) Dania Richter et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits

(2010) SUSANNE A. FRITZ et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Are birds reservoir hosts for Borrelia afzelii?

(2010) Jan Franke et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Transport of Ixodes ricinus infected with Borrelia species to Norway by northward-migrating passerine birds

(2010) Gunnar Hasle et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Changes in migration behaviour of BlackbirdsTurdus merulafrom the Netherlands

(2009) Jasper Van Vliet et al.   BIRD STUDY

Do birds affect Lyme disease risk? Range expansion of the vector-borne pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi

(2009) R Jory Brinkerhoff et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Differential Role of Passerine Birds in Distribution of Borrelia Spirochetes, Based on Data from Ticks Collected from Birds during the Postbreeding Migration Period in Central Europe

(2008) L. Dubska et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Role of Migratory Birds in Introduction and Range Expansion of Ixodes scapularis Ticks and of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Canada

(2008) N. H. Ogden et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

THE MIGRATION OF EUROPEAN THRUSHES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BASED ON RINGING RECOVERIES

(2008) M. J. Ashmole   IBIS

A working guide to boosted regression trees

(2008) J. Elith et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Swainson’s thrushes in migratory disposition exhibit reduced immune function

(2008) Jennifer C. Owen et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

Estimating Reservoir Competence of Borrelia burgdorferi Hosts: Prevalence and Infectivity, Sensitivity, and Specificity

(2008) Jesse L. Brunner et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Global trends in emerging infectious diseases

(2008) Kate E. Jones et al.   NATURE

Infecting epidemiology with genetics: a new frontier in disease ecology

(2008) Elizabeth A. Archie et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION