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Longitudinal Impacts of Forest Loss on Bartonella and Hemotropic Mycoplasma Dynamics in Vampire Bats Within a Fragmented HabitatNARA Subscribed
Habitat fragmentation can negatively impact wildlife, including increasing infectious disease risk. We assessed spatiotemporal changes in pathogen dynamics in vampire bats ( Desmodus rotundus ) in response to habitat fragmentation using general linear mixed models to investigate the influence of site, year, and tree cover on Bartonella spp. and hemotropic Mycoplasma spp. (hemoplasmas) infection risk in bats in one large and on...
Virus‐Dependent Geographic Structure of Co‐Circulating Viruses in a Single Bat SpeciesNARA Subscribed
Understanding the spatial spread of viruses within wildlife populations is often a key component of disease management efforts. Viral spread is likely constrained by host ecology, but inter‐virus differences in infection strategy might allow some viruses to overcome these constraints, leading to divergent population structures within a common host environment. We studied the phylogeographic structure of six virus taxa (dependo...
A general framework for modeling pathogen transmission in co‐roosting host communitiesNARA Subscribed
Cross‐species transmission of pathogens can be facilitated by frequent contact among wildlife. Cross‐species transmission is often driven by phylogenetic similarity between host species, but the role this plays when multiple host species co‐roost is unknown. We developed a generalizable framework for understanding how cross‐species transmission is driven by contact among co‐roosting species spanning evolutionary similarities a...
The Toxicology Investigators Consortium 2024 Annual ReportNARA Subscribed
Contaminants can harm wildlife. However, measuring wildlife exposure to contaminants can be challenging due to accessibility of species and/or sampling tissue matrices needed to assess wildlife health risks. For example, in bats and other taxa that use roosts, collecting feces under colonies minimizes disturbance to species of conservation concern, but fecal contaminant concentrations may not directly correlate with tissue con...
Capture Probability of Blue Swimmer Crab ( Portunus armatus ) in Baited Traps and Implications for Trap Survey DesignNARA Subscribed
Fishery independent surveys provide valuable data for fisheries assessments that predominantly rely on trends in catch per unit effort (CPUE). Many crustacean fisheries are harvested using traps, so this gear is often used for fishery independent surveys. The areal sampling unit for baited traps is normally poorly understood, so surveys can be biased if sampling areas overlap. The blue swimmer crab ( Portunus armatus ) is an i...
New insights into methylfuran metabolismNARA Subscribed
Experimental Drought Suppresses Amphibian Pathogen Yet Intensifies Transmission and Disrupts Protective Skin MicrobiomeNARA Subscribed
Shifting precipitation regimes driven by global climate change can alter vertebrate behavior and host‐symbiont relationships, potentially compromising host resistance to pathogen invasion. In Brazil's Atlantic Forest, a biodiversity hotspot, prior research identified drought as a key factor disrupting the skin microbiome, contributing to a die‐off of pumpkin toadlets due to the invasive waterborne fungal pathogen Batrachochytr...