In the past few decades, sex differences in spatial cognition have often been attributed to
adaptation in response to natural selection. A common explanation is that home range size …

The black rat, roof rat, or ship rat (Rattus rattus L.) is among the most widespread invasive
vertebrates on islands and continents, and it is nearly ubiquitous on Pacific islands from the …

The multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) is the reservoir for Lassa virus (LASV).
Zoonotic transmission occurs when humans are directly or indirectly exposed to fluids of the …

Long-term studies on the impacts of global change on reproduction are rare, even though
reproductive output can respond more quickly than species' abundances or distributions. We …

Invasive rodent species have established on 80% of the world's islands causing significant
damage to island environments. Insular ecosystems support proportionally more biodiversity …

The spatial dynamics of zoonotic arthropod-borne viruses is a fashionable though
challenging topic. Inter-human local transmission of a given arbovirus during an outbreak …

Abstract The Gulf Coast tick Amblyomma maculatum Koch is increasingly relevant to
medical and veterinary communities as human infection rates of Rickettsia parkeri rise, the …

Effective mitigation of the impacts of invasive ship rats (Rattus rattus) requires a good
understanding of their ecology, but this knowledge is very sparse for urban and peri-urban …

Consumption of raw or inadequately cooked pork meat may result in trichinellosis, a human
disease due to nematodes of the genus Trichinella. In many countries worldwide, individual …

The black rat (Rattus rattus) poses a severe threat to food security and public health in
Madagascar, where it is a major cause of pre‐and post‐harvest crop losses and an …