Species formation by host shifting in avian malaria parasites RE Ricklefs, DC Outlaw, M Svensson-Coelho, MCI Medeiros, VA Ellis, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (41), 14816-14821, 2014 | 152 | 2014 |
Local host specialization, host-switching, and dispersal shape the regional distributions of avian haemosporidian parasites VA Ellis, MD Collins, MCI Medeiros, EHR Sari, ED Coffey, RC Dickerson, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (36), 11294-11299, 2015 | 96 | 2015 |
Mixed species flock, nest height, and elevation partially explain avian haemoparasite prevalence in Colombia AD Gonzalez, NE Matta, VA Ellis, ET Miller, RE Ricklefs, HR Gutierrez PLoS One 9 (6), e100695, 2014 | 93 | 2014 |
A new one-step multiplex PCR assay for simultaneous detection and identification of avian haemosporidian parasites A Ciloglu, VA Ellis, R Bernotienė, G Valkiūnas, S Bensch Parasitology Research 118, 191-201, 2019 | 86 | 2019 |
Avian migration and the distribution of malaria parasites in New World passerine birds RE Ricklefs, M Medeiros, VA Ellis, M Svensson‐Coelho, JG Blake, ... Journal of Biogeography 44 (5), 1113-1123, 2017 | 86 | 2017 |
Rickettsial agents in avian ixodid ticks in northeast Brazil C Lugarini, TF Martins, M Ogrzewalska, NCT de Vasconcelos, VA Ellis, ... Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 6 (3), 364-375, 2015 | 78 | 2015 |
Explaining prevalence, diversity and host specificity in a community of avian haemosporidian parasites VA Ellis, X Huang, H Westerdahl, J Jönsson, D Hasselquist, JM Neto, ... Oikos 129 (9), 1314-1329, 2020 | 66 | 2020 |
Habitat modification and seasonality influence avian haemosporidian parasite distributions in southeastern Brazil FC Ferreira Junior, RA Rodrigues, VA Ellis, LO Leite, MAZ Borges, ... PLoS One 12 (6), e0178791, 2017 | 57 | 2017 |
Avian malaria, ecological host traits and mosquito abundance in southeastern Amazonia A Fecchio, VA Ellis, JA Bell, CB Andretti, FM D'horta, AM Silva, VV Tkach, ... Parasitology 144 (8), 1117-1132, 2017 | 48 | 2017 |
Avian haemosporidian prevalence and its relationship to host life histories in eastern Tennessee AE Matthews, VA Ellis, AA Hanson, JR Roberts, RE Ricklefs, MD Collins Journal of Ornithology 157, 533-548, 2016 | 48 | 2016 |
The global biogeography of avian haemosporidian parasites is characterized by local diversification and intercontinental dispersal VA Ellis, EHR Sari, DR Rubenstein, RC Dickerson, S Bensch, RE Ricklefs Parasitology 146 (2), 213-219, 2019 | 44 | 2019 |
The ecology of host immune responses to chronic avian haemosporidian infection VA Ellis, MR Kunkel, RE Ricklefs Oecologia 176, 729-737, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
Prevalence of avian haemosporidian parasites is positively related to the abundance of host species at multiple sites within a region VA Ellis, MCI Medeiros, MD Collins, EHR Sari, ED Coffey, RC Dickerson, ... Parasitology Research 116, 73-80, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
Reciprocal specialization in multihost malaria parasite communities of birds: a temperate-tropical comparison M Svensson-Coelho, VA Ellis, BA Loiselle, JG Blake, RE Ricklefs The American Naturalist 184 (5), 624-635, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
Specialized avian Haemosporida trade reduced host breadth for increased prevalence MCI Medeiros, VA Ellis, RE Ricklefs Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27 (11), 2520-2528, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
Haemosporidian parasites and avian host population abundance in the Lesser Antilles RE Ricklefs, L Soares, VA Ellis, SC Latta Journal of Biogeography 43 (7), 1277-1286, 2016 | 36 | 2016 |
Generalist haemosporidian parasites are better adapted to a subset of host species in a multiple host community X Huang, VA Ellis, J Jönsson, S Bensch Molecular Ecology 27 (21), 4336-4346, 2018 | 35 | 2018 |
Host associations and turnover of haemosporidian parasites in manakins (Aves: Pipridae) A Fecchio, M Svensson-Coelho, J Bell, VA Ellis, MC Medeiros, CH Trisos, ... Parasitology 144 (7), 984-993, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
Host immune responses to experimental infection of Plasmodium relictum (lineage SGS1) in domestic canaries (Serinus canaria) VA Ellis, S Cornet, L Merrill, MR Kunkel, T Tsunekage, RE Ricklefs Parasitology Research 114, 3627-3636, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
Climatic drivers of leaf traits and genetic divergence in the tree Annona crassiflora: a broad spatial survey in the Brazilian savannas PC Ribeiro, ML Souza, LAC Muller, VA Ellis, M Heuertz, JP Lemos‐Filho, ... Global Change Biology 22 (11), 3789-3803, 2016 | 26 | 2016 |