ReviewTrends in ecology & evolution2019
Extreme Competence: Keystone Hosts of Infections.
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- Spillover dynamics and asynchronous temporal fluctuations in host density and competence drive fungal parasite persistence in multi-host, seasonal communities.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Article
- Mosquito feeding patterns in the context of West Nile and eastern equine encephalitis viruses in eastern Ontario, Canada.Medical and veterinary entomology · 2026Article
- Species-specific barriers restrict virus spillover potential across the Caenorhabditis genus.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Competent Non-Native Alternative Host Reduces Infection Success in a Generalist Parasite.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Kinship Analysis Confirms Tolerant Galapagos Mockingbirds Are a Source of Nest Flies That Threaten Darwin's Finches.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Paying Upfront: Successful Initial Infections Protect Against Severe Future Infections.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Inside-out: modelling the link between Zika virus viral dynamics within hosts and transmission to vectors across host species and virus strains.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Host Disease Tolerance Predicts Transmission Probability for a Songbird Pathogen.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Impact of the intensity of infection in birds on Plasmodium development within Culex pipiens mosquitoes.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Individual variation underlies large-scale patterns: Host conditions and behavior affect parasitism.Ecology · 2025Article
- What makes a host a good reservoir? Determinants of the reservoir potential ofVirus evolution · 2025Article
- HPA flexibility andPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Seasonal changes in network connectivity and consequences for pathogen transmission in a solitary carnivore.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Evolutionary ecology of host competence after a chytrid outbreak in a naive amphibian community.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Introduction to the special issue Amphibian immunity: stress, disease and ecoimmunology.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Amphibian infection tolerance to chytridiomycosis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Intraspecific trait variation and changing life-history strategies explain host community disease risk along a temperature gradient.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Understanding Organisms Using Ecological Observatory Networks.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Hotspots and super-spreaders: Modelling fine-scale malaria parasite transmission using mosquito flight behaviour.PLoS pathogens · 2022Article
- Heterogeneity of Rift Valley fever virus transmission potential across livestock hosts, quantified through a model-based analysis of host viral load and vector infection.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Individual hosts differ extensively in their competence for parasites, but traditional research has discounted this variation, partly because modeling such heterogeneity is difficult. This discounting has diminished as tools have improved and recognition has grown that some hosts, the extremely competent, can have exceptional impacts on disease dynamics. Most prominent among these hosts are the superspreaders, but other forms of extreme competence (EC) exist and others await discovery; each with potentially strong but distinct implications for disease emergence and spread. Here, we propose a framework for the study and discovery of EC, suitable for different host-parasite systems, which we hope enhances our understanding of how parasites circulate and evolve in host communities.
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