2022
The Global Virome in One Network (VIRION): an Atlas of Vertebrate-Virus Associations
Carlson C, Gibb R, Albery G, Brierley L, Connor R, Dallas T, Eskew E, Fagre A, Farrell M, Frank H, Muylaert R, Poisot T, Rasmussen A, Ryan S, Seifert S. The Global Virome in One Network (VIRION): an Atlas of Vertebrate-Virus Associations. MBio 2022, 13: e02985-21. PMID: 35229639, PMCID: PMC8941870, DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02985-21.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGlobal viromeNetworks of species interactionsEstimated total diversityHost-virus networksVertebrate host speciesTaxonomic validityBird diversityReport metadataSpecies interactionsMammal diversityViruses infecting humansHost speciesViromeTaxonomic backboneViral diversityHigher classificationVirionsDiversityVertebratesUnique interactionsHarmonized formatVirusTaxonomicallyMacroecologyData setsMammal virus diversity estimates are unstable due to accelerating discovery effort
Gibb R, Albery G, Mollentze N, Eskew E, Brierley L, Ryan S, Seifert S, Carlson C. Mammal virus diversity estimates are unstable due to accelerating discovery effort. Biology Letters 2022, 18: 20210427. PMID: 34982955, PMCID: PMC8727147, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0427.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsViral richnessHost speciesReliability of ecological inferenceGeographic sampling biasEvidence of declineViral diversityHost-virus associationsRearrangement of speciesSampling effortVirus discovery ratesEcological inferenceDiscovery effortsMammal hostsWild mammalsDiversity estimatesSampled hostsVirus diversityShort-term changesRichnessSampling biasSpeciesAssociation dataDiscovery rateDiversityCompare inferences
2020
What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites?
Carlson C, Dallas T, Alexander L, Phelan A, Phillips A. What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites? Proceedings Of The Royal Society B 2020, 287: 20201841. PMID: 33203333, PMCID: PMC7739500, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1841.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsParasite diversityParasites of birdsDiversity of parasitesParasites of amphibiansHelminth parasitesHost-parasite associationsParasite collectionGlobal Virome ProjectParasitesHost-parasite networksHuman Genome ProjectUndersampled countriesSample of diversityGenome ProjectMissing speciesBony fishesGlobal diversitySmall hostsSpeciesGlobal changeHelminthsFishDiversityBirdsVertebratesZygomorphic flowers have fewer potential pollinator species
Yoder J, Gomez G, Carlson C. Zygomorphic flowers have fewer potential pollinator species. Biology Letters 2020, 16: 20200307. PMID: 32871089, PMCID: PMC7532724, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0307.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsZygomorphic flowersCo-occurring plantsSpecialized pollinator interactionsEffective pollinatorsPlant visitorsVisitor diversityPollination interactionsPollinator behaviourRisk of extinctionPollinator speciesPollinator lossVisitor speciesPollinationFloral symmetryFlowersZygomorphic speciesPlantsSpeciesWeb asymmetryZygomorphySub-networksDiversityDiversificationCommunityExtinction
2019
Global estimates of mammalian viral diversity accounting for host sharing
Carlson C, Zipfel C, Garnier R, Bansal S. Global estimates of mammalian viral diversity accounting for host sharing. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2019, 3: 1070-1075. PMID: 31182813, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0910-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVirus speciesHost sharingViral diversitySpecies interaction networksEcological network theorySurveillance of pathogensMacroecological approachVirus diversityInteraction networkEstimate biodiversityAssociation dataSpeciesDiversityHostMammalsHuman healthPandemic potentialVirusGlobal estimatesPathogensNon-linear relationshipBiodiversityPresent estimates
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