Droughts may increase susceptibility of prairie dogs to fleas: incongruity with hypothesized mechanisms of plague cycles in rodents

Early Divergent Strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 Years Ago

(2015) Simon Rasmussen et al.   CELL

Plague bacterium as a transformer species in prairie dogs and the grasslands of western North America

(2015) David A. Eads et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Prevalence of the Generalist Flea Pulex simulans on Black-tailed Prairie Dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) in New Mexico, USA: The Importance of Considering Imperfect Detection

(2015) David A. Eads et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

Climate, environmental and socio-economic change: weighing up the balance in vector-borne disease transmission

(2015) P. E. Parham et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate-driven introduction of the Black Death and successive plague reintroductions into Europe

(2015) Boris V. Schmid et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plague epizootic cycles in Central Asia

(2014) J. Reijniers et al.   Biology Letters

Ectoparasitism and stress hormones: strategy of host exploitation, common host-parasite history and energetics matter

(2014) Justin R. St. Juliana et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The trophic responses of two different rodent-vector-plague systems to climate change

(2014) L. Xu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Detecting between-individual differences in hind-foot length in populations of wild mammals

(2013) J.G.A. Martin et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Climate change and infectious diseases: Can we meet the needs for better prediction?

(2013) Xavier Rodó et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: From Evidence to a Predictive Framework

(2013) S. Altizer et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of Low-Temperature Flea Maintenance on the Transmission of Yersinia pestis by Oropsylla montana

(2013) Shanna K. Williams et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Using occupancy models to investigate the prevalence of ectoparasitic vectors on hosts: An example with fleas on prairie dogs

(2013) David A. Eads et al.   International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife

Factors influencing burrow length and depth of ground-dwelling squirrels

(2012) Dirk H. Van Vuren et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Climate, soils, and connectivity predict plague epizootics in black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus)

(2011) Lisa T. Savage et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research

(2011) Robert S. Sikes et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Annual Seroprevalence of Yersinia pestis in Coyotes as Predictors of Interannual Variation in Reports of Human Plague Cases in Arizona, United States

(2011) Heidi E. Brown et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Plague and Climate: Scales Matter

(2011) Tamara Ben Ari et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Drought Leads to Collapse of Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Populations Reintroduced to the Chihuahuan Desert

(2010) Aaron N. Facka et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Plague outbreaks in prairie dog populations explained by percolation thresholds of alternate host abundance

(2010) D. J. Salkeld et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vector Control Improves Survival of Three Species of Prairie Dogs (Cynomys) in Areas Considered Enzootic for Plague

(2010) Dean E. Biggins et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Rodent and Flea Abundance Fail to Predict a Plague Epizootic in Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs

(2010) Robert Jory Brinkerhoff et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Studies of Vector Competency and Efficiency of North American Fleas for Yersinia pestis: State of the Field and Future Research Needs

(2009) Rebecca J. Eisen et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Disease spread, susceptibility and infection intensity: vicious circles?

(2009) Pablo M. Beldomenico et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Flea Abundance on Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) Increases During Plague Epizootics

(2009) Daniel W. Tripp et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Climate and Vectorborne Diseases

(2008) Kenneth L. Gage et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Global trends in emerging infectious diseases

(2008) Kate E. Jones et al.   NATURE

The abundance threshold for plague as a critical percolation phenomenon

(2008) S. Davis et al.   NATURE

Dynamics of Rodent Populations in Semiarid Habitats in Lassen County, California

(2008) Sara C. Gillespie et al.   WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN NATURALIST