Understanding the influence of host radiation on symbiont speciation through parasites of species flocks

MPM Vanhove, N Kmentová, C Faes… - Cold Spring …, 2025‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
(Adaptive) radiations have attracted evolutionary biologists for a long time as ideal model
systems to study patterns and processes of often rapid speciation. However, whereas a …

The dynamics of disease mediated invasions by hosts with immune reproductive tradeoff

MJ Young, NH Fefferman - Scientific Reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
The modern world involves both increasingly frequent introduction of novel invasive animals
into new habitat ranges and novel epidemic-causing pathogens into new host populations …

Adaptive colonization across a parasitism–mutualism gradient

A Mestre, RK Butlin, J Hortal, M Rafajlović - Evolution Letters, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Adaptive colonization is a process wherein a colonizing population exhibits an adaptive
change in response to a novel environment, which may be critical to its establishment. To …

Epidemiology, Game Theory, and Evolutionary Rescue: Understanding How Outbreaks Impact Population Viability

B Grandison, H Yin, A Kilgore, MJ Young… - Letters in …, 2023‏ - lettersinbiomath.org
Evolutionary game theory (EGT) analyzes the stability of competing strategies for
withstanding selective pressures within a population over generations. Under rapid shifts in …

The dynamics of evolutionary rescue from a novel pathogen threat in a host metapopulation

J Jiao, N Fefferman - Scientific reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
When a novel disease strikes a naïve host population, there is evidence that the most
immediate response can involve host evolution while the pathogen remains relatively …

Source-sink dynamics in a two-patch SI epidemic model with life stages and no recovery from infection

J Calvo-Monge, J Arroyo-Esquivel, A Gehman… - Bulletin of Mathematical …, 2024‏ - Springer
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of a two-patch, two-life stage SI model without
recovery from infection, focusing on the dynamics of disease spread and host population …

The changes in public's terror-to-death influence the dynamics of infectious diseases

J Jiao - 2024‏ - researchsquare.com
Previous studies about vector-borne diseases have emphasized the feedback between
human psychology and diseases but neglected the changes in psychological processes …

How public reaction to disease information across scales and the impacts of vector control methods influence disease prevalence and control efficacy

J Jiao, GP Suarez, NH Fefferman - PLoS computational biology, 2021‏ - journals.plos.org
With the development of social media, the information about vector-borne disease incidence
over broad spatial scales can cause demand for local vector control before local risk exists …