Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology: Vol 345, No 3 The Journal of Experimental Zoology – A publishes articles at the intersection of animal development, physiology, ecology, and evolution.

This study reports ophidiomycosis prevalence in dice snakes (Natrix tessellata): in a Lake Como population, ~53% carried Ophidiomyces and ~24% showed disease, with higher risk in smaller individuals #DiseaseEcology #Herpetology
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Are you familiar/connected with World of Crayfish?
world.crayfish.ro
Tons of data on disease distribution. Could be useful to you.
#diseaseecology #AIS #crayfish #invasivespecies 🧪

I’m catching up on an old issue of Lifecycle and found this fascinating article on a Great tit’s recovery from a nasty case of avian pox. Would be interesting to know if infection completely cleared or still transmissible #DiseaseEcology #Ornithology

Huge thanks to my co-authors @theomichelot.bsky.social, Katherine Mertes, Jared A. Stabach — and my PhD advisor John Fieberg 🙌

#AnimalTelemetry #DiseaseEcology #MovementEcology #WildlifeDisease #Reintroduction

#OneHealth #OROV #EmergingViruses #DiseaseEcology #Fulbright #VectorBiology
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💧🦠Hosts, pathogens and hot ponds: thermal mean and variability contribute to spatial patterns of chytrid infection

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#Amphibian #BatrachochytriumDendrobatidis #DiseaseEcology #EasternNewts #HostParasiteInteractions #NotophthalmusViridescens

New paper out!
We used structural equation modelling to quantify how deer affect Lyme disease hazard, both directly and indirectly via vegetation and rodents. doi.org/10.1016/j.tt...

#LymeDisease #DiseaseEcology #Ticks
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Don’t forget to submit your abstract for #GARD26 by Feb 1!

We are looking for posters & oral presentations from all career stages!

#herpetology #conservation #amphibian #reptile #diseaseecology

Host competence-abundance relationships drive the dilution effect across multiple small mammal-borne pathogens
Bouilloud, M. et al.
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#DiseaseEcology #PathogenTransmission #SmallMammalHosts

Unraveling the disease pyramid: the role of environmental micro-eukaryotes in amphibian resistance to the deadly fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis | mSystems Research on host-associated microbiomes and infectious diseases has mostly focused on bacteria, overlooking the potential contributions of micro-eukaryotes to infection dynamics. Here, we show that en...

Unraveling the disease pyramid: the role of environmental micro-eukaryotes in amphibian resistance to the deadly fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

#highmountainlakes
#diseasepyramid
#microbialecology
#diseaseecology
#amphibianimmunity
#18SrRNAgene

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Excited to share that I’m joining @bigbiology.bsky.social this season as a recurring guest host. Marty Martin and I teamed up on my first episode with @jaapderoode.bsky.social, and it's just dropped. Hope you enjoy it.

#diseaseecology

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#amphibian #reptile #diseaseecology #herpetology

Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Disease Ecology and Epidemiology

Join our lab!
The Disease Ecology Lab at the USYD is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to explore drivers of infectious diseases at the wildlife-livestock interface

🌐 www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

#PhD #Scholarship #DiseaseEcology #Epidemiology #WildlifeHealth #OneHealth #USYD

Integrating these community metrics into surveillance is crucial for early warning & preventing future epidemics! #AvianResearch #HPAI #DiseaseEcology

#ornithology #birds #diseaseEcology

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Ecological effects of biodiversity (Biodiversity 🦗)

The diversity of species and genes in ecological communities affects the functioning of these communities. These ecological effects of biodiversity in turn are affected by both climate change through enhanced greenhouse gases, aerosols and […]

Ants exhibit remarkable adaptability by restructuring their nests to hinder disease transmission, highlighting nature's intricate defense mechanisms. 🐜🔍 Link: https://tinyurl.com/282jygoh #Biodiversity #DiseaseEcology #NatureAdaptation

a recent graduate from UofA helped me make a video about my research. i love my team and then work that i get to for my PhD 🦟🩸🐦‍⬛ #westnilevirus #diseaseecology #wildlifeconservation #onehealth #publichealth #medicalentomology #womeninstem #arizona

Very excited to connect with the Berkeley wildlife community tomorrow and share my work on tapirs, expansion of vector-borne diseases, and One Health!
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#Biodiversity #AI #Nature #OneHealth #Climate #Tapirs #DiseaseEcology #Screwworm #Conservation #CameraTraps

A nice thread highlighting key findings from our new paper estimating parameters of #HPAI in subsequent outbreaks in common terns. We developed a Bayesian inference approach to infer parameters from just carcass counts. #seabirds #statisticalecology #diseaseecology

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Necromeny (Parasitology 🧬)

Necromeny is a symbiotic relationship where an animal infects a host and waits inside its body until its death, at which point it develops and completes its life-cycle on the cadaver, feeding on the decaying matter and the subsequent bacterial growth. As the […]

i got to help work on a Sin Nombre hantavirus project this week! 🐀 🐭 🩸 it felt great to don some PPE again and collaborate with my old workplace (CDC)!

#diseaseecology #wildlife #wildlifeconservation #womeninstem #arizona #publichealth #onehealth #cdc

Two Dione vanillae caterpillars in a cage full of Passiflora vines. One is healthy, the other is a darkly colored and shrinking. Potentially infected with NPV.

Virus? 😉 #diseaseecology #NPV #lepidoptera

Rapid wildlife tracking offers early warning system for pandemic protection When the next pandemic threat looms, help may come from an unexpected source: wild animals. In a new study led by Prof. Ran Nathan from the Movement Ecology Lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, researchers propose a bold new approach to detecting and managing disease outbreaks—by tracking wildlife in near real-time.

Wild animals may hold the key to predicting & managing future pandemics! 🌍 Researchers are tracking wildlife in real-time. ✨ #DiseaseEcology

Source: phys.org/news/2025-09-rapid-wildl...

We have a new paper out on the evolutionary arms race between tuberculosis and #MHC mediated immunity in meerkats, using over ~20 years worth of data from wild meerkats. Led by Nadine Müller-Klein, Dom Melville and Simone Sommer. Link below! #DiseaseEcology

Cities aren’t uniform. Neither is disease. 🦠🏙️
Psittacosis in #urban feral #pigeons shows fine-scale heterogeneity, even a few kilometres can make a big difference. City averages risk hiding the true #hotspots without dense spatial sampling

#DiseaseEcology #UrbanEcology #EOU25

New from the Swei lab in Science Advances: In California’s Mediterranean climate, infected ticks don’t respond to weather like uninfected ticks. Cloud cover ↑ density; wind ↓ it. Implications for Lyme risk forecasting.
#LymeDisease #DiseaseEcology #ClimateChange #VectorBiology #SFSU

The ghost of infections past: Accounting for heterogeneity in individual infection history improves accuracy in epidemic forecasting Variable pathogen exposure history contributes to individual immune differences, complicating epidemic forecasting. This Essay argues that experimental disease ecology can offer powerful tools and app...

Forecasting the effects of #epidemics is complicated by a population’s pathogen exposure history. @pfvale.bsky.social @chadisaadroy.bsky.social & Mike Boots argue for the use of experimental #DiseaseEcology to better understand the consequences of variations in #infection history 🧪
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