2023
The coevolutionary mosaic of bat betacoronavirus emergence risk
Forero-Muñoz N, Muylaert R, Seifert S, Albery G, Becker D, Carlson C, Poisot T. The coevolutionary mosaic of bat betacoronavirus emergence risk. Virus Evolution 2023, 10: vead079. PMID: 38361817, PMCID: PMC10868545, DOI: 10.1093/ve/vead079.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpatially explicit frameworkGeographic mosaic theory of coevolutionHost richnessGeographies of riskExplicit frameworkGeographic mosaic theoryTheory of coevolutionGlobal biogeographySub-Saharan AfricaDisease emergencePathogen evolutionEvolutionary riskSub-SaharanViral emergenceMiddle EastHotspotsSoutheast AsiaNetwork embedding unveils the hidden interactions in the mammalian virome
Poisot T, Ouellet M, Mollentze N, Farrell M, Becker D, Brierley L, Albery G, Gibb R, Seifert S, Carlson C. Network embedding unveils the hidden interactions in the mammalian virome. Patterns 2023, 4: 100738. PMID: 37409053, PMCID: PMC10318366, DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2023.100738.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMammalian viromeViral genomic featuresHost-virus interactionsGraph embeddingGenomic featuresNetwork science problemUnder-characterizedFundamental biologyHuman infectionsViromeRecommender systemsDiscovery effortsAmazon basinDisease emergenceHidden interactionsImputation algorithmData biasNetworkLinear filterScience problems
2019
Testing predictability of disease outbreaks with a simple model of pathogen biogeography
Dallas T, Carlson C, Poisot T. Testing predictability of disease outbreaks with a simple model of pathogen biogeography. Royal Society Open Science 2019, 6: 190883. PMID: 31827836, PMCID: PMC6894608, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.190883.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPathogen outbreaksCo-occurring pathogensPredicting disease emergencePathogen geographic distributionOutbreak eventsPathogen communitiesHuman infectious diseasesPathogen typesPathogensGeographical distributionBiogeographyTest predictionsDisease emergenceGlobal disease surveillancePairwise dissimilaritiesLeverage informationDisease outbreaksInfluenza pandemicGlobal emergencyPublic health professionalsRe-emergenceGlobal view
2018
The Ecology of Pathogen Spillover and Disease Emergence at the Human-Wildlife-Environment Interface
Alexander K, Carlson C, Lewis B, Getz W, Marathe M, Eubank S, Sanderson C, Blackburn J. The Ecology of Pathogen Spillover and Disease Emergence at the Human-Wildlife-Environment Interface. Advances In Environmental Microbiology 2018, 5: 267-298. PMCID: PMC7123968, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92373-4_8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchProcess of spilloverAbiotic environmentPathogen spilloverDisease emergencePathogen life cycleHuman populationLife cycleHuman-to-human transmissionInfectious diseasesSpillover processWildlifeEcologistsPublic healthEcologyNovel diseaseTransmission pathwaysLivestockDiseaseGlobal burdenSpillover rateDiversity
2017
Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate
Carlson C, Burgio K, Dougherty E, Phillips A, Bueno V, Clements C, Castaldo G, Dallas T, Cizauskas C, Cumming G, Doña J, Harris N, Jovani R, Mironov S, Muellerklein O, Proctor H, Getz W. Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate. Science Advances 2017, 3: e1602422. PMID: 28913417, PMCID: PMC5587099, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602422.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChanging climateExtinction ratesClimate-driven habitat lossClimate changeLocal extinction ratesSpatially explicit dataEstimate extinction ratesNegative impacts of climate changeImpacts of climate changeHabitat lossNative speciesEcological consequencesWildlife extinctionTemperate ecosystemsExplicit dataParasite richnessGeographic rangeFace extinctionParasite diversityDisease emergenceIndirect pressureModel projectionsParasite speciesClimateSpecies