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| Sonia AltizerSummaryAffiliation: University of Georgia Country: USA Publications
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Animal migration and infectious disease riskSonia Altizer
Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Science 331:296-302. 2011..Studies of pathogen dynamics in migratory species and how these will respond to global change are urgently needed to predict future disease risks for wildlife and humans alike...
Do threatened hosts have fewer parasites? A comparative study in primatesSonia Altizer
Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
J Anim Ecol 76:304-14. 2007..Lower average parasite richness in threatened host taxa also points to the need for a better understanding of the cascading effects of host biodiversity loss for affiliated parasite species...- Populations of Monarch butterflies with different migratory behaviors show divergence in wing morphologySonia Altizer
Odum School of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Evolution 64:1018-28. 2010..Collectively, these results support evolutionary responses to long-distance flight in monarchs, with implications for the conservation of phenotypically distinct wild populations... - Seasonality and the dynamics of infectious diseasesSonia Altizer
Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Ecol Lett 9:467-84. 2006..Finally, by focusing on well-studied examples of infectious diseases, we hope to highlight general insights that are relevant to other ecological interactions... - Infectious diseases and extinction risk in wild mammalsAmy B Pedersen
Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Conserv Biol 21:1269-79. 2007.... 
The redder the better: wing color predicts flight performance in monarch butterfliesAndrew K Davis
Odum School of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e41323. 2012....- Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of rabies exposure in vampire bats: implications for transmission and controlDaniel G Streicker
Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Proc Biol Sci 279:3384-92. 2012..These findings provide new insights into the mechanisms of RV maintenance in vampire bats and highlight the need for ecologically informed approaches to rabies prevention in Latin America... - Host plant species affects virulence in monarch butterfly parasitesJacobus C de Roode
Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 2202, USA
J Anim Ecol 77:120-6. 2008..5. Our results demonstrate that host ecology importantly affects parasite virulence, with implications for host-parasite dynamics in natural populations... - Urban land use predicts West Nile virus exposure in songbirdsCatherine A Bradley
Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 2202, USA
Ecol Appl 18:1083-92. 2008.... - Urbanization and the ecology of wildlife diseasesCatherine A Bradley
Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 22:95-102. 2007..Continued rapid urbanization, together with risks posed by multi-host pathogens for humans and vulnerable wildlife populations, emphasize the need for future research on wildlife diseases in urban landscapes... - Comparative tests of parasite species richness in primatesCharles L Nunn
Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Am Nat 162:597-614. 2003..Geographic range size and day range length explained significant variation in the diversity of viruses... - Parasites and the evolutionary diversification of primate cladesCharles L Nunn
Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Am Nat 164:S90-103. 2004.... - Climate warming and disease risks for terrestrial and marine biotaC Drew Harvell
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Science 296:2158-62. 2002..To improve our ability to predict epidemics in wild populations, it will be necessary to separate the independent and interactive effects of multiple climate drivers on disease impact... - Patterns of host specificity and transmission among parasites of wild primatesAmy B Pedersen
Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 22904, USA
Int J Parasitol 35:647-57. 2005..Furthermore, nearly all viruses that were reported to infect both humans and non-human primates were classified as emerging in humans... - Dynamics of a novel pathogen in an avian host: Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in house finchesAndre A Dhondt
Cornell University, Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Acta Trop 94:77-93. 2005.... - Genotypic analyses of Mycoplasma gallisepticum isolates from songbirds by random amplification of polymorphic DNA and amplified-fragment length polymorphismJohn J Cherry
Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Wildl Dis 42:421-8. 2006..One 2001 isolate from New York was clearly different from the other songbird samples and clustered together with the vaccine and reference strains, indicating that substantial molecular evolution or a separate introduction has occurred...