Parasite transmission in a natural multihost–multiparasite community

SKJR Auld, CL Searle, MA Duffy - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… for quantifying overall parasite transmission potential, β(σ/τ), which we then applied to a
natural multihost–multiparasite system. We found that both a bacterial and a fungal parasite can …

[HTML][HTML] Potential parasite transmission in multi-host networks based on parasite sharing

S Pilosof, S Morand, BR Krasnov, CL Nunn - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
multi-host networks based on parasite sharing can provide new insights into the potential for
transmission … the nature of parasite sharing (ie structure of the host-parasite network) may …

Uncertain links in host–parasite networks: lessons for parasite transmission in a multi-host system

JG Walker, M Plein, ER Morgan… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… host–parasite network to project a host–host transmission network with links weighted by the
number of shared parasitetransmission patterns within a multi-host multi-parasite system. …

Who acquires infection from whom and how? Disentangling multi-host and multi-mode transmission dynamics in the 'elimination'era

JP Webster, A Borlase… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Understanding the complex population biology and transmission ecology of multi-host parasites
… diseases in humans being multi-host zoonoses, ie infectious diseases that are naturally

Differential sources of host species heterogeneity influence the transmission and control of multihost parasites

DG Streicker, A Fenton, AB Pedersen - Ecology letters, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… in contributions to parasite transmission, we adapted Pielou's … of each host species to parasite
transmission (π i , see Box 1) … the ubiquity of such systems in nature and the implications of …

Evolution of multihost parasites

S Gandon - Evolution, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… for the study of parasite life-history evolution in a multihost context. This framework is …
transmission routes can coevolve with parasite virulence. I assume again that parasite transmission

Parasite and host assemblages: embracing the reality will improve our knowledge of parasite transmission and virulence

T Rigaud, MJ Perrot-Minnot… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… ) or several host species (multi-host parasites) are the rule in nature. Only a few studies …
In this review, we believe we have demonstrated how multi-host parasites and multi-parasite

Specialist by preference, generalist by need: availability of quality hosts drives parasite choice in a natural multihostparasite system

DE Manzoli, MJ Saravia-Pietropaolo, SI Arce… - International Journal for …, 2021 - Elsevier
… of disease transmission. If our findings hold for other parasite-multihost systems and the '…
on which to build our understanding of how parasites are distributed across the host community …

Beyond single host, single parasite interactions: Quantifying competence for complete multihost, multi‐parasite communities

TE Stewart Merrill, DM Calhoun… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… Extending these estimates to our understanding of transmission in natural communities
requires robust values, and we found strong support for the reliability of these interaction-level …

Are all hosts created equal? Partitioning host species contributions to parasite persistence in multihost communities

A Fenton, DG Streicker, OL Petchey… - The American …, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
multihost sharing, based on key thresholds for parasite … ’ contribution to parasite persistence,
allowing natural systems to be … Here we assume that the parasite is transmitted via a single …