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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, MEIdentifying 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 ReviewsVolume
93Pagination
950-970ISSN
1464-7931Department/School
School of Natural SciencesPublisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.Place of publication
United KingdomRights statement
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