Bat-borne virus diversity, spillover and emergence

M Letko, SN Seifert, KJ Olival, RK Plowright… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Most viral pathogens in humans have animal origins and arose through cross-species
transmission. Over the past 50 years, several viruses, including Ebola virus, Marburg virus …

The science of the host–virus network

GF Albery, DJ Becker, L Brierley, CE Brook… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Better methods to predict and prevent the emergence of zoonotic viruses could support
future efforts to reduce the risk of epidemics. We propose a network science framework for …

Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk

CJ Carlson, GF Albery, C Merow, CH Trisos, CM Zipfel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
At least 10,000 virus species have the ability to infect humans but, at present, the vast
majority are circulating silently in wild mammals 1, 2. However, changes in climate and land …

Prediction and analysis of coronavirus disease 2019

L Jia, K Li, Y Jiang, X Guo - arxiv preprint arxiv:2003.05447, 2020 - arxiv.org
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus was found in a seafood wholesale market in Wuhan,
China. WHO officially named this coronavirus as COVID-19. Since the first patient was …

Dilution effects in disease ecology

F Keesing, RS Ostfeld - Ecology Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, people have reduced the transmission of pathogens by adding low‐quality
hosts to managed environments like agricultural fields. More recently, there has been …

Predicting the zoonotic capacity of mammals to transmit SARS-CoV-2

IR Fischhoff, AA Castellanos… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Back and forth transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) between humans and animals will establish wild reservoirs of virus that endanger long …

What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites?

CJ Carlson, TA Dallas… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How many parasites are there on Earth? Here, we use helminth parasites to highlight how
little is known about parasite diversity, and how insufficient our current approach will be to …

[HTML][HTML] Human adaptation of Ebola virus during the West African outbreak

RA Urbanowicz, CP McClure, A Sakuntabhai, AA Sall… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The 2013–2016 outbreak of Ebola virus (EBOV) in West Africa was the largest recorded. It
began following the cross-species transmission of EBOV from an animal reservoir, most …

[HTML][HTML] Mammals, wildlife trade, and the next global pandemic

KN Shivaprakash, S Sen, S Paul, JM Kiesecker… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Most new infectious diseases emerge when pathogens transfer from animals to humans. 1,
2 The suspected origin of the COVID pandemic in a wildlife wet market has resurfaced …

Predicting the global mammalian viral sharing network using phylogeography

GF Albery, EA Eskew, N Ross, KJ Olival - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding interspecific viral transmission is key to understanding viral ecology and
evolution, disease spillover into humans, and the consequences of global change. Prior …