The use of social and contact networks to answer basic and applied questions about
infectious disease transmission in wildlife and livestock is receiving increased attention …

Many organisms that cause infectious diseases, particularly RNA viruses, mutate so rapidly
that their evolutionary and ecological behaviours are inextricably linked. Consequently …

1. Heterogeneity in the ability of hosts to transmit pathogens is among the most fundamental
concepts in disease dynamics and has major implications for disease control strategies. 2 …

Recent progress in the field of wildlife disease ecology demonstrates that infectious disease
plays a crucial role in the lives of wild animals. Parasites and pathogens should be …

The rapid rates of viral evolution allow us to reconstruct the recent history of viruses in great
detail. This feature, however, also results in rapid erosion of evolutionary signal within viral …

Among the most fundamental questions in viral evolutionary biology are how fast viruses
evolve and how evolutionary rates differ among viruses and fluctuate through time …

Over 40 nonhuman primate (NHP) species harbor species-specific simian
immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs). Similarly, more than 20 species of nondomestic felids and …

Lentiviruses are a distinctive genus of retroviruses that cause chronic, persistent infections in
mammals, including humans. The emergence of pandemic HIV type-1 (HIV-1) infection …

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) infects numerous wild and domestic feline species and
is closely related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and simian immunodeficiency …

Directly transmitted parasites often provide substantial information about the temporal and
spatial characteristics of host-to-host contact. Here, we demonstrate that a fast-evolving virus …