ArticleThe Journal of animal ecology2026
The consequences of host heterogeneity for parasite transmission depend on how host infectiousness is determined.
Article in The Journal of animal ecology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- The consequences of host heterogeneity for parasite transmission depend on how host infectiousness is determined.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Article
- Host heterogeneity and unpredictability in parasite outbreaks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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Abstract
Host heterogeneities in susceptibility and infectiousness can affect parasite transmission, but standard analyses typically consider a limited range of epidemiological scenarios. We propose two contrasting phenomenological scenarios that capture a wide range of processes by which host infectiousness is determined and explore how these scenarios affect the impact of host heterogeneities on parasite transmission. Specifically, we contrast two limiting cases for how host infectiousness may be determined: 'Recipient dependence' (RD), where a host's infectiousness is a fixed characteristic of the recipient host being infected, and 'Donor dependence' (DD), where a host's infectiousness is determined at the time of infection by properties of the donor host that infected them. Contrasting susceptible-infected models of these two phenomenological scenarios show that under RD, R
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