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Towards an eco-phylogenetic framework for infectious disease ecology

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posted on 2023-05-21, 06:56 authored by Nicholas Fountain-JonesNicholas Fountain-Jones, Pearse, WD, Escobar, LE, Alba-Casals, A, Scott CarverScott Carver, Davies, TJ, Kraberger, S, Papes, M, Vandergrift, K, Worsley-Tonks, K, Craft, ME
Identifying patterns and drivers of infectious disease dynamics across multiple scales is a fundamental challenge for modern science. There is growing awareness that it is necessary to incorporate multi-host and/or multi-parasite interactions to understand and predict current and future disease threats better, and new tools are needed to help address this task. Eco-phylogenetics (phylogenetic community ecology) provides one avenue for exploring multi-host multi-parasite systems, yet the incorporation of eco-phylogenetic concepts and methods into studies of host pathogen dynamics has lagged behind. Eco-phylogenetics is a transformative approach that uses evolutionary history to infer present-day dynamics. Here, we present an eco-phylogenetic framework to reveal insights into parasite communities and infectious disease dynamics across spatial and temporal scales. We illustrate how eco-phylogenetic methods can help untangle the mechanisms of host–parasite dynamics from individual (e.g. co-infection) to landscape scales (e.g. parasite/host community structure). An improved ecological understanding of multi-host and multi-pathogen dynamics across scales will increase our ability to predict disease threats.

Funding

National Science Foundation

History

Publication title

Biological Reviews

Volume

93

Pagination

950-970

ISSN

1464-7931

Department/School

School of Natural Sciences

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Place of publication

United Kingdom

Rights statement

Copyright 2017 Cambridge Philosophical Society

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Control of pests, diseases and exotic species in terrestrial environments

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