ArticleeLife2021
Physiology and ecology combine to determine host and vector importance for Ross River virus.
Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Australian vertebrate hosts of Japanese encephalitis virus: a review of the evidence.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2025Pooled it
- Ross River virus transmission, infection, and disease: two and a half decades of research progress-an updated cross-disciplinary review.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Ecological specialization in vectors alters transmission thresholds and endemic dynamics in multi-host, multi-vector systems.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Qualitative risk assessment of Japanese encephalitis virus introduction and transmission in Pacific Island countries and territories.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Screening for Oropouche virus in wild bird samples collected from wildlife rehabilitation centers, Florida, United States, 2021-2024.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Vector Potential Index: Bridging Competence and Contribution as an Integrative Measure of Relative Transmission Capability.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Ecological suitability of Japanese encephalitis virus in Australia: A modelling analysis of vector-host transmission dynamics to potential spillover in humans.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Acquired tick resistance inInfection and immunity · 2025Article
- Ascertainment of Community Exposure Sites to Ross River Virus During the 2020 Outbreak in Brisbane, Australia.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Development of a Rapid Surveillance System for Ross River Virus in Mosquitoes Through Reverse-Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (RT-LAMP).Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2025Article
- Mosquito bloodmeals can be used to determine vertebrate diversity, host preference, and pathogen exposure in humans and wildlife.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Australian vertebrate hosts of Japanese encephalitis virus; a review of the evidence.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- Species-specific MARCO-alphavirus interactions dictate chikungunya virus viremia.Cell reports · 2023Article
- Ecological drivers of dog heartworm transmission in California.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- Not all mosquitoes are created equal: A synthesis of vector competence experiments reinforces virus associations of Australian mosquitoes.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Seroprevalence of dengue, Zika, chikungunya and Ross River viruses across the Solomon Islands.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Human-mediated impacts on biodiversity and the consequences for zoonotic disease spillover.Current biology : CB · 2021Review
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Abstract
Identifying the key vector and host species that drive the transmission of zoonotic pathogens is notoriously difficult but critical for disease control. We present a nested approach for quantifying the importance of host and vectors that integrates species' physiological competence with their ecological traits. We apply this framework to a medically important arbovirus, Ross River virus (RRV), in Brisbane, Australia. We find that vertebrate hosts with high physiological competence are not the most important for community transmission; interactions between hosts and vectors largely underpin the importance of host species. For vectors, physiological competence is highly important. Our results identify primary and secondary vectors of RRV and suggest two potential transmission cycles in Brisbane: an enzootic cycle involving birds and an urban cycle involving humans. The framework accounts for uncertainty from each fitted statistical model in estimates of species' contributions to transmission and has has direct application to other zoonotic pathogens.
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