ReviewEvolutionary applications2018
Pathogens in space: Advancing understanding of pathogen dynamics and disease ecology through landscape genetics.
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- Population genetic structure and demographic history of Dermacentor marginatus Sulzer, 1776 in Anatolia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Spatial Landscape Structure Influences Cross-Species Transmission in a Rabies-like Virus Model.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Protocol to produce a systematic Arenavirus and Hantavirus host-pathogen database: Project ArHa.Wellcome open research · 2025Article
- Genomic Analysis of Sarda Sheep Raised at Diverse Temperatures Highlights Several Genes Involved in Adaptations to the Environment and Heat Stress Response.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Landscape-scale drivers of spatial dynamics and genetic diversity in an emerging wildlife pathogen.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Intergenomic signatures of coevolution between Tasmanian devils and an infectious cancer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Are rabid raccoons (Evolutionary applications · 2023Article
- Genetic variation at innate and adaptive immune genes - contrasting patterns of differentiation and local adaptation in a wild gull.Heredity · 2023Article
- Emergence of zoonoticVeterinary world · 2023Review
- Habitat connectivity and host relatedness influence virus spread across an urbanising landscape in a fragmentation-sensitive carnivore.Virus evolution · 2023Article
- Hunting alters viral transmission and evolution in a large carnivore.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- Long-read sequencing reveals the evolutionary drivers of intra-host diversity across natural RNA mycovirus infections.Virus evolution · 2021Article
- Impact of Landscape on Host-Parasite Genetic Diversity and Distribution Using theMicroorganisms · 2021Article
- The roles of environmental variation and parasite survival in virulence-transmission relationships.Royal Society open science · 2021Review
- Spatial population genetics in heavily managed species: Separating patterns of historical translocation from contemporary gene flow in white-tailed deer.Evolutionary applications · 2021Article
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9 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Landscape genetics has provided many insights into how heterogeneous landscape features drive processes influencing spatial genetic variation in free-living organisms. This rapidly developing field has focused heavily on vertebrates, and expansion of this scope to the study of infectious diseases holds great potential for landscape geneticists and disease ecologists alike. The potential application of landscape genetics to infectious agents has garnered attention at formative stages in the development of landscape genetics, but systematic examination is lacking. We comprehensively review how landscape genetics is being used to better understand pathogen dynamics. We characterize the field and evaluate the types of questions addressed, approaches used and systems studied. We also review the now established landscape genetic methods and their realized and potential applications to disease ecology. Lastly, we identify emerging frontiers in the landscape genetic study of infectious agents, including recent phylogeographic approaches and frameworks for studying complex multihost and host-vector systems. Our review emphasizes the expanding utility of landscape genetic methods available for elucidating key pathogen dynamics (particularly transmission and spread) and also how landscape genetic studies of pathogens can provide insight into host population dynamics. Through this review, we convey how increasing awareness of the complementarity of landscape genetics and disease ecology among practitioners of each field promises to drive important cross-disciplinary advances.
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