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An Introduction to Dzala: An East Bodish Language Spoken in Eastern Bhutan
This handout accompanied a PowerPoint presentation from the 15th HLS. It includes an extensive appendix with a narrative text. The PowerPoint presentation has sound files, but this website doesn't seem to allow two documents, so I've chosen the na...
Publication · June 09, 2026
Manipulating host resistance structure reveals impact of pathogen dispersal and environmental heterogeneity on epidemics.
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Understanding how variation in hosts, parasites, and the environment shapes patterns of disease is key to predicting ecological and evolutionary outcomes of epidemics. Yet in spatially structured populations, variation in host resistanc...
Publication · June 09, 2026
Intraspecific host variation plays a key role in virus community assembly
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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 occurrence, how differences among host genotypes affect...
Publication · June 09, 2026
Direct and indirect viral associations predict coexistence in wild plant virus communities.
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Viruses are a vastly underestimated component of biodiversity that occur as diverse communities across hierarchical scales from the landscape level to individual hosts. The integration of community ecology with disease biology is a powe...
Publication · June 09, 2026
Altered within- and between-host transmission under coinfection underpin parasite co-occurrence patterns in the wild
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Interactions among parasite species coinfecting the same host individual can have far reaching consequences for parasite ecology and evolution. How these within-host interactions affect epidemics may depend on two non-exclusive mechanis...
Publication · June 09, 2026
Coinfection with a virus constrains within‐host infection load but increases transmission potential of a highly virulent fungal plant pathogen
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Abstract The trade‐off between within‐host infection rate and transmission to new hosts is predicted to constrain pathogen evolution, and to maintain polymorphism in pathogen populations. Pathogen life‐history stages and their correlati...
Publication · June 09, 2026
The first arriving virus shapes within-host viral diversity during natural epidemics
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Viral diversity has been discovered across scales from host individuals to populations. However, the drivers of viral community assembly are still largely unknown. Within-host viral communities are formed through co-infections, where th...
Publication · June 09, 2026
Short-term fitness consequences of parasitism depend on host genotype and within-host parasite community.
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Multi-parasite communities inhabiting individual hosts are common and often consist of parasites from multiple taxa. The effects of parasite community composition and complexity on host fitness are critical for understanding how host-pa...
Publication · June 09, 2026
Detection of jeilongvirus circulation in Finnish urban rat populations by a novel pan-jeilong-RT-qPCR
Publication · June 09, 2026
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