Integrating phylogenetic and ecological distances reveals new insights into parasite host specificity

Habitat heterogeneity drives the host-diversity-begets-parasite-diversity relationship: evidence from experimental and field studies

(2016) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Discovering potential sources of emerging pathogens: South America is a reservoir of generalist avian blood parasites

(2016) Michaël A.J. Moens et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Co-infections and environmental conditions drive the distributions of blood parasites in wild birds

(2016) Nicholas J. Clark et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Resource predictability and specialization in avian malaria parasites

(2016) Maria Svensson-Coelho et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Migration strategy and pathogen risk: non-breeding distribution drives malaria prevalence in migratory waders

(2016) Nicholas J. Clark et al.   OIKOS

Molecular and morphological description of Haemoproteus (Parahaemoproteus) bukaka (species nova), a haemosporidian associated with the strictly Australo-Papuan host subfamily Cracticinae

(2016) W. Goulding et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Migratory Birds as Global Dispersal Vectors

(2016) Duarte S. Viana et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

In the Eye of the Cyclops: The Classic Case of Cospeciation and Why Paradigms are Important

(2015) Daniel R. Brooks et al.   COMPARATIVE PARASITOLOGY

Phylogenetic uncertainty revisited: Implications for ecological analyses

(2015) Thiago F. Rangel et al.   EVOLUTION

Specialist enemies, generalist weapons and the potential spread of exotic pathogens: malaria parasites in a highly invasive bird

(2015) Nicholas J. Clark et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Differences in host species relationships and biogeographic influences produce contrasting patterns of prevalence, community composition and genetic structure in two genera of avian malaria parasites in southern Melanesia

(2015) Sophie Olsson-Pons et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic structure and host abundance drive disease pressure in communities

(2015) Ingrid M. Parker et al.   NATURE

Trait-based and phylogenetic associations between parasites and their hosts: a case study with small mammals and fleas in the Palearctic

(2015) Boris R. Krasnov et al.   OIKOS

Molecular and morphological characterization of Haemoproteus (Parahaemoproteus) ptilotis, a parasite infecting Australian honeyeaters (Meliphagidae), with remarks on prevalence and potential cryptic speciation

(2015) Nicholas J. Clark et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Local host specialization, host-switching, and dispersal shape the regional distributions of avian haemosporidian parasites

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

The butterfly effect: parasite diversity, environment, and emerging disease in aquatic wildlife

(2015) Robert D. Adlard et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

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

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

The importance of parasite geography and spillover effects for global patterns of host-parasite associations in two invasive species

(2014) Konstans Wells et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Assembly rules of ectoparasite communities across scales: combining patterns of abiotic factors, host composition, geographic space, phylogeny and traits

(2014) Boris R. Krasnov et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

A link between host dispersal and parasite diversity in two sympatric cichlids of Lake Tanganyika

(2014) Arnout F. Grégoir et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

A review of global diversity in avian haemosporidians (Plasmodium and Haemoproteus: Haemosporida): new insights from molecular data

(2014) Nicholas J. Clark et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Heterogeneous hosts: how variation in host size, behaviour and immunity affects parasite aggregation

(2014) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Drivers of parasite sharing among Neotropical freshwater fishes

(2014) Mariana P. Braga et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The influence of vagrant hosts and weather patterns on the colonization and persistence of blood parasites in an island bird

(2014) Nicholas J. Clark et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The enemy release hypothesis as a hierarchy of hypotheses

(2014) Tina Heger et al.   OIKOS

Coevolutionary patterns and diversification of avian malaria parasites in African sunbirds (Family Nectariniidae)

(2014) ELVIN J. LAURON et al.   PARASITOLOGY

White-Nose Syndrome Fungus: A Generalist Pathogen of Hibernating Bats

(2014) Jan Zukal et al.   PLoS One

Species formation by host shifting in avian malaria parasites

(2014) R. E. Ricklefs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover

(2014) R. K. Plowright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Using species co-occurrence patterns to quantify relative habitat breadth in terrestrial vertebrates

(2014) S. Ducatez et al.   Ecosphere

The ecology of differences: assessing community assembly with trait and evolutionary distances

(2013) Marc Cadotte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The study of parasite sharing for surveillance of zoonotic diseases

(2013) Maxwell J Farrell et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Patterns and processes of alternative host use in a generalist parasite: insights from a natural host-parasite interaction

(2013) Amélie Lootvoet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Phylogenetically related and ecologically similar carnivores harbour similar parasite assemblages

(2013) Shan Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Identification and characterization of the merozoite surface protein 1 (msp1) gene in a host-generalist avian malaria parasite, Plasmodium relictum (lineages SGS1 and GRW4) with the use of blood transcriptome

(2013) Olof Hellgren et al.   MALARIA JOURNAL

Marked host specificity and lack of phylogeographic population structure ofCampylobacter jejuniin wild birds

(2013) Petra Griekspoor et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Global Biogeography of Reef Fishes: A Hierarchical Quantitative Delineation of Regions

(2013) Michel Kulbicki et al.   PLoS One

Centrality in primate-parasite networks reveals the potential for the transmission of emerging infectious diseases to humans

(2013) J. M. Gomez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Host compatibility rather than vector-host-encounter rate determines the host range of avian Plasmodium parasites

(2013) M. C. I. Medeiros et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Host specialization in ticks and transmission of tick-borne diseases: a review

(2013) Karen D. McCoy et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Diptera vectors of avian Haemosporidian parasites: untangling parasite life cycles and their taxonomy

(2012) Diego Santiago-Alarcon et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Establishment of exotic parasites: the origins and characteristics of an avian malaria community in an isolated island avifauna

(2012) John G. Ewen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic host specificity and understanding parasite sharing in primates

(2012) Natalie Cooper et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Living fast and dying of infection: host life history drives interspecific variation in infection and disease risk

(2012) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

TESTING FOR PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL IN BIOLOGICAL TRAITS: THE UBIQUITY OF CROSS-PRODUCT STATISTICS

(2012) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   EVOLUTION

Stochastic and deterministic assembly processes in subsurface microbial communities

(2012) James C Stegen et al.   ISME Journal

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Determinants of distribution and prevalence of avian malaria in blue tit populations across Europe: separating host and parasite effects

(2011) E. SZÖLLŐSI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A molecular evolutionary concept connecting nonhost resistance, pathogen host range, and pathogen speciation

(2011) Paul Schulze-Lefert et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Host Phylogeny Determines Viral Persistence and Replication in Novel Hosts

(2011) Ben Longdon et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Spatial feeding preferences of ornithophilic mosquitoes, blackflies and biting midges

(2010) O. ČERNÝ et al.   MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY

Nonspecific patterns of vector, host and avian malaria parasite associations in a central African rainforest

(2010) K. Y. NJABO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Spatially explicit predictions of blood parasites in a widely distributed African rainforest bird

(2010) R. N. M. Sehgal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Host Phylogeny Constrains Cross-Species Emergence and Establishment of Rabies Virus in Bats

(2010) D. G. Streicker et al.   SCIENCE

A jack-of-all-trades and still a master of some: prevalence and host range in avian malaria and related blood parasites

(2009) Olof Hellgren et al.   ECOLOGY

Similarity in ectoparasite faunas of Palaearctic rodents as a function of host phylogenetic, geographic or environmental distances: Which matters the most?

(2009) Boris R. Krasnov et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Phylogenetic determinants of potential host shifts in fungal pathogens

(2009) D. M. de VIENNE et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Patterns of co-speciation and host switching in primate malaria parasites

(2009) László Garamszegi   MALARIA JOURNAL

On the challenge of treating various types of variables: application for improving the measurement of functional diversity

(2009) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   OIKOS

Do mosquitoes filter the access of Plasmodium cytochrome b lineages to an avian host?

(2008) ANDREA B. GAGER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY