Beyond R0 maximisation: on pathogen evolution and environmental dimensions

S Lion, JAJ Metz - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2018 - cell.com
A widespread tenet is that evolution of pathogens maximises their basic reproduction ratio,
R 0. The breakdown of this principle is typically discussed as exception. Here, we argue that …

Viral invasion fitness across a continuum from lysis to latency

JS Weitz, G Li, H Gulbudak, MH Cortez… - Virus …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The prevailing paradigm in ecological studies of viruses and their microbial hosts is that the
reproductive success of viruses depends on the proliferation of the 'predator', that is, the …

When to be temperate: on the fitness benefits of lysis vs. lysogeny

G Li, MH Cortez, J Dushoff, JS Weitz - Virus Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial viruses, that is 'bacteriophage'or 'phage', can infect and lyse their bacterial hosts,
releasing new viral progeny. In addition to the lytic pathway, certain bacteriophage (ie …

Evolution of pathogen virulence across space during an epidemic

EE Osnas, PJ Hurtado… - The American …, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
We explore pathogen virulence evolution during the spatial expansion of an infectious
disease epidemic in the presence of a novel host movement trade-off, using a simple …

A practical approach to R0 in continuous‐time ecological models

C Barril, A Calsina, J Ripoll - Mathematical Methods in the …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions in linear models of
population dynamics by means of the basic reproduction number R 0. Our aim is to give a …

Pathogen evolution in finite populations: slow and steady spreads the best

TL Parsons, A Lambert, T Day… - Journal of The Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The theory of life-history evolution provides a powerful framework to understand the
evolutionary dynamics of pathogens. It assumes, however, that host populations are large …

On the reproduction number of a gut microbiota model

C Barril, À Calsina, J Ripoll - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2017 - Springer
A spatially structured linear model of the growth of intestinal bacteria is analysed from two
generational viewpoints. Firstly, the basic reproduction number associated with the bacterial …

Evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases in finite populations

J Humplik, AL Hill, MA Nowak - Journal of theoretical biology, 2014 - Elsevier
In infectious disease epidemiology the basic reproductive ratio, R 0, is defined as the
average number of new infections caused by a single infected individual in a fully …

Pathogen evolution under host avoidance plasticity

DV McLeod, T Day - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Host resistance consists of defences that limit pathogen burden, and can be classified as
either adaptations targeting recovery from infection or those focused upon infection …

Building new models: Rethinking and revising ode model assumptions

PJ Hurtado - An Introduction to Undergraduate Research in …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) models are ubiquitous throughout the
sciences, and form the backbone of the branch of mathematics known as applied dynamical …