Urbanization is characterized by rapid intensification of agriculture, socioeconomic change,
and ecological fragmentation, which can have profound impacts on the epidemiology of …

Increasingly intimate associations between human society and the natural environment are
driving the emergence of novel pathogens, with devastating consequences for humans and …

Microbial ecology provides insights into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of
microbial communities underpinning every ecosystem on Earth. Microbial communities can …

Understanding the non-human reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens is critical for effective
disease control, but identifying the relative contributions of the various reservoirs of multi …

Identifying patterns and drivers of infectious disease dynamics across multiple scales is a
fundamental challenge for modern science. There is growing awareness that it is necessary …

The Covid-19 pandemic is of zoonotic origin, and many other emerging infections of humans
have their origin in an animal host population. We review the challenges involved in …

A comprehensive framework for understanding species coexistence Coexistence is the
central concept in community ecology, but an understanding of this concept requires that we …

Modeling of infectious diseases at the livestock-wildlife interface is a unique subset of
mathematical modeling with many innate challenges. To ascertain the characteristics of the …

Environmental factors are common forces driving infectious disease dynamics. We
compared interannual and seasonal patterns of anthrax infections in two multihost systems …

The genomics era has revolutionized studies of adaptive evolution by monitoring large
numbers of loci throughout the genomes of many individuals. Ideally, the investigation of …