Plague cycles in two rodent species from China: dry years might provide context for epizootics in wet years

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

(2016) David A. Eads et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Factors that affect parasitism of black-tailed prairie dogs by fleas

(2016) David A. Eads et al.   Ecosphere

Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus

(2016) Kirsten I Bos et al.   eLife

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

Model averaging and muddled multimodel inferences

(2015) Brian S. Cade   ECOLOGY

Role of the PhoP–PhoQ gene regulatory system in adaptation of Yersinia pestis to environmental stress in the flea digestive tract

(2015) Viveka Vadyvaloo et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

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

NDVI-Based Vegetation Change in Inner Mongolia from 1982 to 2006 and Its Relationship to Climate at the Biome Scale

(2014) Linghui Guo et al.   Advances in Meteorology

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

Transmission Shifts Underlie Variability in Population Responses to Yersinia pestis Infection

(2011) Michael G. Buhnerkempe et al.   PLoS One

Emergence, spread, persistence and fade-out of sylvatic plague in Kazakhstan

(2011) L. Heier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Plague and Climate: Scales Matter

(2011) Tamara Ben Ari et al.   PLoS Pathogens

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

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

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

Unpacking β: Within-Host Dynamics and the Evolutionary Ecology of Pathogen Transmission

(2008) Michael F. Antolin   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

PRIMARY PRODUCTION AND RAIN USE EFFICIENCY ACROSS A PRECIPITATION GRADIENT ON THE MONGOLIA PLATEAU

(2008) Yongfei Bai et al.   ECOLOGY

The abundance threshold for plague as a critical percolation phenomenon

(2008) S. Davis et al.   NATURE

Adaptive strategies ofYersinia pestisto persist during inter-epizootic and epizootic periods

(2008) Rebecca J. Eisen et al.   VETERINARY RESEARCH

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

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