BACKGROUND Despite ongoing advances in biomedicine, infectious diseases remain a
major threat to human health, economic sustainability, and wildlife conservation. This is in …

Hosts are typically coinfected by multiple parasite species, resulting in potentially
overwhelming levels of complexity. We argue that an individual host can be considered to …

The diverse collections of microorganisms associated with humans and other animals,
collectively referred to as their “microbiome,” are critical for host health, but the mechanisms …

Ecological factors, host characteristics and/or interactions among microbes may all shape
the occurrence of microbes and the structure of microbial communities within organisms. In …

Mosquito host utilization is a key factor in the transmission of vector‐borne pathogens given
that it greatly influences host–vector contact rates. Blood‐feeding patterns of mosquitoes are …

Infection by multiple pathogens of the same host is ubiquitous in both natural and managed
habitats. While intraspecific variation in disease resistance is known to affect pathogen …

Networks are a way to represent interactions among one (eg, social networks) or more (eg,
plant-pollinator networks) classes of nodes. The ability to predict likely, but unobserved …

Most metacommunity studies have taken a direct mechanistic approach, aiming to model the
effects of local and regional processes on local communities within a metacommunity. An …

Most metacommunity studies aim to explain variation in community structure using
environmental and spatial variables. An alternative is to examine patterns emerging at the …

Parasites can indirectly affect ecosystem function by altering host phenotype, but the trait‐
mediated impacts of parasitism at an ecosystem level remain poorly characterised …