Daniel G. Streicker

TL;DR: Using a data set of hundreds of rabies viruses sampled from 23 North American bat species, a general framework is presented to quantify per capita rates of cross-species transmission and reconstruct historical patterns of viral establishment in new host species using molecular sequence data, which demonstrate diminishing frequencies of both cross- species transmission and host shifts with increasing phylogenetic distance between bat species.

TL;DR: A systematic review 305 scientific articles investigating how specific types of anthropogenic land use change influence infectious disease dynamics, emphasizing the importance of ecological and evolutionary theory to understand pathogen responses in changing landscapes.

TL;DR: It is shown that food provisioning results in highly heterogeneous infection outcomes that depend on pathogen type and anthropogenic food source, and empirical support for behavioural and immune mechanisms through which human-provided resources alter host exposure and tolerance to pathogens is found.

TL;DR: Trends in the occurrence and apparent causes of multiple mortality events (MMEs) in bats around the world are reviewed and qualitatively described.

TL;DR: It is shown that the proportion of viruses that infect humans varies minimally across reservoir taxonomic orders, which supports a host-neutral explanation for observed variation in the number of zoonoses among animal groups, such that traits of animal orders are unlikely to produce viruses that disproportionately threaten humans.