ArticleParasitology2020
Towards a mechanistic understanding of competence: a missing link in diversity-disease research.
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- Parasitiformes (ticks) and Acariformes (mites) vectors and their vertebrate host diversity: A global scoping review.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Review
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- Flea Burden on Rodents and Its Associated Determinants in Plague-Endemic Localities of Karatu District, Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Study.Public health challenges · 2024Article
- Early-stage loss of ecological integrity drives the risk of zoonotic disease emergence.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Diverging effects of host density and richness across biological scales drive diversity-disease outcomes.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Inconsistent dilution: experimental but not field evidence for a dilution effect in Daphnia-bacteria interactions.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Into the danger zone: How the within-host distribution of parasites controls virulence.Ecology letters · 2024Article
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- Schistosoma transmission: scaling-up competence from hosts to ecosystems.Trends in parasitology · 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
- The interplay between vector microbial community and pathogen transmission on the invasive Asian tiger mosquito,Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
- The potential impacts of invasions on native symbionts.Ecology · 2022Article
- Modelling Japanese encephalitis virus transmission dynamics and human exposure in a Cambodian rural multi-host system.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Cellular and immunological mechanisms influence host-adapted phenotypes in a vector-borne microparasite.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Biodiversity loss may increase the risk of infectious disease in a phenomenon known as the dilution effect. Circumstances that increase the likelihood of disease dilution are: (i) when hosts vary in their competence, and (ii) when communities disassemble predictably, such that the least competent hosts are the most likely to go extinct. Despite the central role of competence in diversity-disease theory, we lack a clear understanding of the factors underlying competence, as well as the drivers and extent of its variation. Our perspective piece encourages a mechanistic understanding of competence and a deeper consideration of its role in diversity-disease relationships. We outline current evidence, emerging questions and future directions regarding the basis of competence, its definition and measurement, the roots of its variation and its role in the community ecology of infectious disease.
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