Host tissues represent diverse resources or barriers for pathogen replicative fitness. We
tested whether viruses in specialist, generalist, and non-specialist interactions replicate …

Simple Summary Chinook salmon in California conservation hatcheries have suffered
disease outbreaks and significant mortality due to the fish virus infectious hematopoietic …

Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHNV) infects juvenile salmonid fish in
conservation hatcheries and aquaculture facilities, and in some cases, causes lethal …

Abstract Theory of the evolution of pathogen specialization suggests that a specialist
pathogen gains high fitness in one host, but this comes with fitness loss in other hosts. By …

This is the first comprehensive region wide, spatially explicit epidemiologic analysis of
surveillance data of the aquatic viral pathogen infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus …

Simple Summary When a virus infects a host it reproduces in that host and then sheds from
the host in order to find new hosts for more rounds of reproduction. Thus, virus shedding is a …

Much remains unknown about variation in pathogen transmission across the geographic
range of a free-ranging fish or animal species and about the influence of movement …

Many pathogens interact and evolve in communities where more than one host species is
present, yet our understanding of host–pathogen specialization is mostly informed by …

We have developed a dynamic epidemiological model informed by records of viral presence
and genotypes to evaluate potential transmission routes maintaining a viral pathogen in …

Simple Summary The transmission of viruses between host populations is essential for
viruses to persist on the landscape. Therefore, the identification of specific transmission links …