Drivers of Intensity and Prevalence of Flea Parasitism on Small Mammals in East African Savanna Ecosystems

Context-dependent effects of large-wildlife declines on small-mammal communities in central Kenya

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Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease?

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Effects of mammal host diversity and density on the infection level ofTrypanosoma cruziin sylvatic kissing bugs

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Declines in large wildlife increase landscape-level prevalence of rodent-borne disease in Africa

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Sex-biased parasitism in Richardson’s ground squirrels (Urocitellus richardsonii) depends on the parasite examined

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Multiple effects of host-species diversity on coexisting host-specific and host-opportunistic microbes

(2013) Hadar Kedem et al.   ECOLOGY

Does habitat disturbance increase infectious disease risk for primates?

(2013) Hillary Young et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Does life history mediate changing disease risk when communities disassemble?

(2013) Maxwell B. Joseph et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A meta-analysis suggesting that the relationship between biodiversity and risk of zoonotic pathogen transmission is idiosyncratic

(2013) Daniel J Salkeld et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Life history strategy influences parasite responses to habitat fragmentation

(2013) Götz Froeschke et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Linking manipulative experiments to field data to test the dilution effect

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Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna

(2013) Hillary S. Young et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Non-random biodiversity loss underlies predictable increases in viral disease prevalence

(2013) C. Lacroix et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence

(2013) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   NATURE

Sex-biased parasitism is not universal: evidence from rodent–flea associations from three biomes

(2013) Christian Kiffner et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Drivers of Echinococcus multilocularis Transmission in China: Small Mammal Diversity, Landscape or Climate?

(2013) Patrick Giraudoux et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Gender-biased parasitism in small mammals: patterns, mechanisms, consequences

(2012) Boris R. Krasnov et al.   MAMMALIA

Patterns of diversity and abundance of fleas and mites in the Neotropics: host-related, parasite-related and environment-related factors

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Remnant fragments within an agricultural matrix enhance conditions for a rodent host and its fleas

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Assessment of Three Mitochondrial Genes (16S, Cytb, CO1) for Identifying Species in the Praomyini Tribe (Rodentia: Muridae)

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Condition-Specific Competition Governs the Geographic Distribution and Diversity of Ectoparasites

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Transmission of Flea-Borne Zoonotic Agents

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Rickettsia felis: from a rare disease in the USA to a common cause of fever in sub-Saharan Africa

(2011) P. Parola   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Forest species diversity reduces disease risk in a generalist plant pathogen invasion

(2011) Sarah E. Haas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Dynamics of the plague-wildlife-human system in Central Asia are controlled by two epidemiological thresholds

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Ectoparasite Infestations of Hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) are Associated with Small-Scale Landscape Structures in an Urban–Suburban Environment

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Understanding the effects of rainfall on elephant–vegetation interactions around waterholes

(2010) Mathias Franz et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Variation in innate immunity in relation to ectoparasite load, age and season: a field experiment in great tits (Parus major)

(2010) G. De Coster et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

(2010) Felicia Keesing et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic disturbance and the risk of flea-borne disease transmission

(2010) Megan M. Friggens et al.   OECOLOGIA

Do Fleas Affect Energy Expenditure of Their Free-Living Hosts?

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Seasonal and habitat dependence of fleas parasitic on small mammals in Tanzania

(2009) Anne LAUDISOIT et al.   Integrative Zoology

Bacterial communities of disease vectors sampled across time, space and species

(2009) Ryan T Jones et al.   ISME Journal

Parasite-specific variation and the extent of male-biased parasitism; an example with a South African rodent and ectoparasitic arthropods

(2009) SONJA MATTHEE et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Flea infestation reduces the life span of the common vole

(2009) G. DEVEVEY et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Effects of the removal of large herbivores on fleas of small mammals

(2008) Douglas J. McCauley et al.   JOURNAL OF VECTOR ECOLOGY

Climate or host availability: what determines the seasonal abundance of ticks?

(2008) Margot Oorebeek et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH