Human disturbance increases coronavirus prevalence in bats

VM Warmuth, D Metzler, V Zamora-Gutierrez - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Human land modification is a known driver of animal-to-human transmission of infectious
agents (zoonotic spillover). Infection prevalence in the reservoir is a key predictor of …

Characterizing the phylogenetic specialism–generalism spectrum of mammal parasites

AW Park, MJ Farrell, JP Schmidt… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The distribution of parasites across mammalian hosts is complex and represents a
differential ability or opportunity to infect different host species. Here, we take a …

The specificity of host-bat fly interaction networks across vegetation and seasonal variation

M Zarazúa-Carbajal, RA Saldaña-Vázquez… - Parasitology …, 2016 - Springer
Vegetation type and seasonality promote changes in the species composition and
abundance of parasite hosts. However, it is poorly known how these variables affect host …

Phylogeny matters: revisiting 'a comparison of bats and rodents as reservoirs of zoonotic viruses'

C Guy, J Thiagavel, N Mideo… - Royal Society Open …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Diseases emerging from wildlife have been the source of many major human outbreaks.
Predicting key sources of these outbreaks requires an understanding of the factors that …

Phylogenetic signals in flea-host interaction networks from four biogeographic realms: differences between interactors and the effects of environmental factors

BR Krasnov, GI Shenbrot, IS Khokhlova - International Journal for …, 2022 - Elsevier
The structure of ecological interaction networks is associated with evolutionary histories of
the interacting species. This is reflected by the phylogenetic signals (PS) in these networks …

Specialization and modularity of a bat fly antagonistic ecological network in a dry tropical forest in northern Colombia

AA Durán, RA Saldaña-Vázquez… - Acta …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Ecological networks represent the energy flow and interactions among the species of an
ecological community. Streblidae is a family of bloodsucking flies specialized in parasitizing …

Helminths of small rodents (Heteromyidae and Cricetidae) in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: an integrative taxonomic approach to their inventory

JA Panti May, WI Moguel Chin, DI Hernández Mena… - 2023 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
In this survey, we inventoried the helminths of heteromyid and cricetid rodents captured in
the Yucatan Peninsula from 2017 to 2019. Helminths were identified using morphological …

Interaction networks between bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) and ectoparasitic flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) in the Colombian Orinoquia Region

CL Rivera, JF Padilla, EM Ospina Pérez… - Acta …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
The study of host-parasite interactions is key to understanding ecological interactions since
parasites play a crucial role in the regulation of populations of host species. The families …

Survey on helminths of bats in the Yucatan Peninsula: infection levels, molecular information and host–parasite networks

WI Moguel-Chin, DI Hernández-Mena… - Parasitology, 2023 - cambridge.org
Helminth species of Neotropical bats are poorly known. In Mexico, few studies have been
conducted on helminths of bats, especially in regions such as the Yucatan Peninsula where …

Parasite species richness and host range are not spatially conserved

TA Dallas, P Jordano - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Interactor richness in host–parasite networks, corresponding to either parasite species
richness for host species or host range for parasite species, can be a function of taxonomic …