At one point or another, almost every organism will face infection by parasites. Despite this
near universality, immune responses to infection vary markedly across individuals, sexes …

Biodiversity in communities is changing globally, including the gain and loss of host species
in host-pathogen communities. Increased host diversity can cause infection prevalence in a …

Disease spillover can have dramatic consequences in multispecies systems, potentially
leading to the emergence of zoonoses. To better understand disease emergence patterns …

Invasions can impact on parasite communities through both the introduction of exotic
parasite species and effects of invading hosts on native parasite dynamics. However, our …

While vector-borne parasite transmission often operates via generalist-feeding vectors
facilitating cross-species transmission in host communities, theory describing the …

Understanding the transmission and dynamics of infectious diseases in natural communities
requires understanding the extent to which the ecology, evolution and epidemiology of those …

Host species richness and parasite species richness are often positively correlated, but the
strength of this relationship varies from study to study. What accounts for this variability …

Background The density of a host population is a key parameter underlying disease
transmission, but it also has implications for the expression of disease through its effect on …

Understanding how ecological communities are assembled remains a key goal of
ecosystem ecology. Because communities are hierarchical, factors acting at multiple scales …

A key challenge surrounding ongoing climate shifts is to identify how they alter species
interactions, including those between hosts and parasites. Because transmission often …