Publications

2024

Raina K. Plowright, Aliyu N. Ahmed, Tim Coulson, Thomas W. Crowther, Imran Ejotre, Christina L. Faust, Winifred F. Frick, Peter J. Hudson, Tigga Kingston, P.O. Nameer, M. Teague O'Mara, Alison J. Peel, Hugh Possingham, Orly Razgour, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Manuel Ruiz-Aravena, Nancy B. Simmons, Prashanth N. Srinivas, Gary M. Tabor, Iroro Tanshi, Ian G. Thompson, Abi T. Vanak, Neil M. Vora, Charley E. Willison, Annika T.H. Keeley. Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemics. Nature Communications. 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46151-9

The Lancet-PPATS Commission on Prevention of Viral Spillover, Robyn Alders, John H Amuasi, Sania Ashraf, Daniel Becker, Salome A Bukachi, Sakib Burza, Sarah Cleveland, Omnia El Omrani, Ngozi A Erondu, Juliana Machado Ferreira, Latiffah Hassan, Binbin Li, James Lloyd-Smith, Ted Loch-Temzelides, Wanda Markotter, Osondu Ogbuoji, Malik Peiris, Dirk Pfeiffer, Raina K Plowright, Alexander Popp, Nicole Redvers, Benjamin Roche, John E Scanlon, Nigel Sizer, Mariana Vale, Neil M Vora, Chris Walzer, Sejal Worah, Thomas C Mettenleiter, Andrea S Winkler. Draft of WHO Pandemic Agreement plays down primary prevention. The Lancet. 2024. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00066-7.

2023

Caylee Falvo, Dan Crowley, Evelyn Benson, Monica N. Hall, Benjamin Schwarz, Eric Bohrnsen, Manuel Ruiz-Aravena, Madison Hebner, Wenjun Ma, Tony Schountz, Agnieszka Rynda-Apple, and Raina K. Plowright. Diet-induced changes in metabolism influence immune response and viral shedding dynamics in Jamaican fruit bats. 2023. BioRxiv preprint doi: 10.1101/2023.12.01.569121.

John Lagergren, Manuel Ruiz-Aravena, Daniel J. Becker, Wyatt Madden, Lib Ruytenberg, Andrew Hoegh, Barbara Han, Alison J. Peel, Peggy Eby, Daniel Jacobson and Raina K. Plowright. Environmental and ecological signals predict periods of nutritional stress for Eastern Australian flying fox populations. 2023. BioRxiv preprint doi: 10.1101/2023.12.01.569640.

Reaser JK, Chitale RA, Tabor GM, Hudson PJ, Plowright RK. Looking Left: Ecologically Based Biosecurity to Prevent Pandemics. Health Security. doi: 10.1089/hs.2023.0089.

Benny Borremans, Caylee A. Falvo, Daniel E. Crowley, Andrew Hoegh, James O. Lloyd-Smith, Alison J. Peel, Olivier Restif, Manuel Ruiz-Aravena, and Raina K. Plowright. Reconstructing prevalence dynamics of wildlife pathogens from pooled and individual samples. 2023. BioRxiv preprint doi: 2023.11.02.565200.

Neil M. Vora, Latiffah Hassan, Raina K. Plowright, Richard Horton, Sonila Cook, Nigel Sizer, and Aaron Bernstein. The Lancet–PPATS Commission on Prevention of Viral Spillover: reducing the risk of pandemics through primary prevention. The Lancet. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01064-4.

Tamika J. Lunn, Benny Borremans, Devin N. Jones, Maureen K. Kessler, Adrienne S. Dale, Kwe C. Yinda, Manuel Ruiz-Aravena, Caylee A Falvo, Dan Crowley, James O. Lloyd-Smith, Vincent J. Munster, Peggy Eby, Hamish McCallum, Peter Hudson, Olivier Restif, Liam P. McGuire, Ina L. Smith, Bat One Health Group, Raina K. Plowright, Alison J. Peel. Periodic shifts in viral load increase risk of spillover from bats. 2023. BioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.06.556454

Trenton Bushmaker, Kwe Claude Yinda, Dylan Morris, Myndi Holbrook, Amandine Gamble, Danielle Adney, Cara Bushmaker, Neeltje van Doremalen, Robert Fischer, Raina K. Plowright, James O Lloyd-Smith, Vincent Munster. Comparative aerosol and surface stability of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern. 2023. Emerging Infectious Diseases. doi: 10.3201/eid2905.221752

Anna C. Fagre, Ausraful Islam, Will K. Reeves, Rebekah C. Kading, Raina K. Plowright, Emily S. Gurley & Clifton D. McKee. Bartonella Infection in Fruit Bats and Bat Flies, Bangladesh. 2023. Microbial Ecology. doi: 10.1007/s00248-023-02293-9

Mikaela Cashman, Verónica G. Melesse Vergara, John Lagergren, Matthew Lane, Jean Merlet, Mikaela Atkinson, Jared Streich, Christopher Bradburne, Raina Plowright, Wayne Joubert, Daniel Jacobson. Longitudinal Effects on Plant Species Involved in Agriculture and Pandemic Emergence Undergoing Changes in Abiotic Stress. 2023. PASC ’23: Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference. doi: 10.1145/3592979.3593402

Jean Merlet, John Lagergren, Verónica Melesse Vergara, Mikaela Cashman, Christopher Bradburne, Raina Plowright, , Emily Gurley, Wayne Joubert, Daniel Jacobson. Data-Driven Whole-Genome Clustering to Detect Geospatial, Temporal, and Functional Trends in SARS-CoV-2 Evolution. 2023. PASC ’23: Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference. doi: 10.1145/3592979.3593425

Biggs, Duan and Peel, Alison J. and Astaras, Christos and Braczkowski, Alexander and Cheung, Hubert and Choi, Chi-Yeung and Orume, Robinson Diotoh and Cáceres-Escobar, Hernán and Phelps, Jacob and Plowright, Raina K. and Van Rooyen, Jacques and van Velden, Julia and McCallum, Hamish. Governance Principles for the Wildlife Trade to Reduce Spillover and Pandemic Risk. Accepted. CABI One Health. doi: 10.1079/cabionehealth.2023.0013

Aaron T. Hendricksen, Shahrzad Ezzatpour, Anunay J. Pulukuri, Dr. Austin T. Ryan, Tatum J. Flanagan, William Frantz, David W. Buchholz, Victoria Ortega, Dr. Isaac A. Monreal, Dr. Julie M. Sahler, Dr. Amy E. Nielsen, Prof. Hector Aguilar-Carreno, Prof. Rock J. Mancini. Thermophobic Trehalose Glycopolymers as Smart C-Type Lectin Receptor Vaccine Adjuvants. 2023. Advanced Healthcare Materials. DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202202918

Christina Faust, Adrian A. Castellanos, Alison J. Peel, Peggy Eby, Raina Plowright, Barbara A. Han, Nita Bharti. Environmental variation across multiple spatial scales and temporal lags influences Hendra virus spillover. 2023. Journal of Applied Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14415

Scherting B, Peel A, Plowright R; Hoegh A. Estimation of COVID-19 prevalence dynamics from pooled data. 2023. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. doi: 10.1093/jssam/smad011

2022

Eby, P., A. J. Peel, W. Madden, J. R. Giles, P. J. Hudson, and R.K. Plowright. Pathogen spillover driven by rapid changes in bat ecology. Nature.(2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05506-2

Becker, Daniel, Peggy Eby, Wyatt Madden, Alison Peel, and Raina K. Plowright. Ecological Conditions Experienced by Bat Reservoir Hosts Predict the Intensity of Hendra Virus Excretion over Space and Time. 2022. Ecology Letters. doi.org/10.1111/ele.14007

Cecilia A. Sánchez, Michael Penrose, Maureen K. Kessler, Daniel J. Becker, Adam McKeown, Madeline Hannappel, Victoria Boyd, Melinda S. Camus, Ticha Padgett-Stewart, Alison J. Peel, David A. Westcott, Thomas R. Rainwater, Matthew M. Chumchal, George P. Cobb, Sonia Altizer, Raina K. Plowright, Wayne S. J. Boardman. Land use, season, and parasitism predict metal concentrations in Australian flying fox fur. 2022. Science of the Total Environment. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156699

Neil Vora, Lee Hannah, Susan Lieberman, Mariana M. Vale, Raina K. Plowright, Aaron S. Bernstein. Want to prevent pandemics? Stop Spillovers. 2022. Nature 605, 419-422. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01312-y

Clifton D. McKee, Ausraful Islam, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman, Salah Uddin Khan, Mahmudur Rahman, Syed M. Satter, Ariful Islam, Claude Kwe Yinda, Jonathan H. Epstein, Peter Daszak, Vincent J. Munster, Peter J. Hudson, Raina K. Plowright, Stephen P. Luby, Emily S. Gurley. Nipah Virus Detection at Bat Roosts after Spillover Events, Bangladesh, 2012–2019. 2022. Emerging Infectious Diseases. DOI: 10.3201/eid2807.212614

Annand E.J., B.A. Horsburgh, K. Xu, P.A. Reid, B. Poole, M.C. de Kantzow, N. Brown, A. Tweedie, M. Michie, J.D. Grewar, A. Jackson, N. Singanallur, K. Plain, M. Tachedjian, B. van der Heide, D. T. Williams, C. Secombe, E. D. Laing, S. Sterling, L. Yan, L. Jackson, C. Jones, R.K. Plowright, A.J. Peel, I. Diallo, A. C. Breed, C.C. Broder, P.N. Britton, N.K. Dhand, I. Smith, J.S. Eden. A novel Hendra virus variant detected by sentinel surveillance of Australian horses. 2022. Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Alison J. Peel, Claude Kwe Yinda, Edward J. Annand, Adrienne S. Dale, Peggy Eby, John-Sebastian Eden, Devin N. Jones, Maureen K. Kessler, Tamika J. Lunn, Tim Pearson, Jonathan E. Schulz, Ina L. Smith, Bat One Health, Vincent J. Munster, Raina K. Plowright. A novel variant of Hendra virus circulates in black flying-foxes (Pteropus alecto) and grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus). 2022. Emerging Infectious Diseases 28(5) doi:10.3201/eid2805.212338

Reaser, Jamie; Hunt, Brooklin; Ruiz-Aravena, Manuel; Tabor, Gary; Patz, Jonathan; Becker, Daniel; Locke, Harvey; Hudson, Peter; Plowright, K. Raina. Reducing land use induced-spillover risk by fostering landscape immunity: policy priorities for conservation practitioners. 2022. Conservation Letters. doi.org/10.1111/conl.12869

Dale Hansen, Brooklin Hunt, Caylee Falvo, Manuel Ruiz-Aravena, Jane Hall, Paul Thompson, Karrie Rose, Maureen Kessler, Devin Jones, Tamika Lunn, Adrienne Dale, Alison J. Peel, Bat One Health, Raina K. Plowright. Morphological and quantitative analysis of lymphocytes in free-living Australian black flying foxes (Pteropus alecto). Accepted. PloS ONE.

2021

Schreiber, S.J., Ke, R., Loverdo, C., Park, M., Ahsan, P., Lloyd-Smith, J.O. Cross-scale dynamics and the evolutionary emergence of infectious diseases.  Virus Evolution. 2021. doi.org/10.1093/ve/veaa105.

Islam A, McKee C, Ghosh PK, Abedin J, Epstein JH, Daszak P, Luby SP, Khan SU, Gurley ES. Seasonality of Date Palm Sap Feeding Behavior by Bats in Bangladesh. EcoHealth. 2021 Sep;18(3):359-71.

Cox-Witton K, Baker ML, Edson D, Peel AJ, Welbergen JA, Field H. Risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from humans to bats – An Australian assessment. One Health. 2021. doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100247

Jolma, E. R., Gibson, L., Suu-Ire, R. D., Fleischer, G., Asumah, S., Languon, S., Restif, O., Wood, J. L. N., & Cunningham, A. A. Longitudinal Secretion of Paramyxovirus RNA in the Urine of Straw-Coloured Fruit Bats (Eidolon helvum). Viruses. 2021. doi.org/10.3390/v13081654

Gibson, L., Rebas, M. P., Kemp, J., Restif, O., Suu-Ire, R. D., Wood, J. L. N., & Cunningham, A. A. Persistence of Multiple Paramyxoviruses in a Closed Captive Colony of Fruit Bats (Eidolon helvum). Viruses. 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/v13081659

van Doremalen N, Letko MC, Fischer R, Bushmaker T, Yinda KC, Schulz J, Seifert SN, Kim NJ, Hemida MG, Kayali G, Park WB. Surface‒Aerosol Stability and Pathogenicity of Diverse Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Strains, 2012‒2018. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2021. doi: 10.3201/eid/2712/210344

Hoegh A, Peel AJ, Madden W, Aravena MR, Morris A, Washburne A, et al. Estimating viral prevalence with data fusion for adaptive two phase pooled sampling. Ecol Evol. 2021. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8107

Fischer R, van Doremalen N, Adney D, Yinda C, Port J, Holbrook M, Schulz J, Williamson B, Thomas T, Barbian K, Anzick S. ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) protects Syrian hamsters against SARS-CoV-2 B.1.351 and B.1.1.7. Nature Communications. 2021. doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.11.435000

Gamble A, Fischer RJ, Morris DH, Yinda KC, Munster VJ, Lloyd-Smith JO. Heat-treated virus inactivation rate depends strongly on treatment procedure: Illustration with SARS-CoV-2. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2021. doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00314-21

Becker, Daniel, Peggy Eby, Wyatt Madden, Alison Peel, and Raina Plowright. Ecological Conditions Experienced by Bat Reservoir Hosts Predict the Intensity of Hendra Virus Excretion over Space and Time. In Press. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.19.457011

Neeltje van Doremalen, Jyothi N. Purushotham, Jonathan E. Schulz, Myndi G. Holbrook, Trenton Bushmaker, Aaron Carmody, Julia R. Port, Claude K. Yinda, Atsushi Okumura, Greg Saturday, Fatima Amanat, Florian Krammer, Patrick W. Hanley, Brian J. Smith, Jamie Lovaglio, Sarah L. Anzick, Kent Barbian, Craig Martens, Sarah Gilbert, Teresa Lambe, Vincent J. Munster. Intranasal ChAdOx1 nCoV-19/AZD1222 vaccination reduces shedding of SARS-CoV-2 D614G in rhesus macaques. Science Transitional Medicine. 2021 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abh0755

Julia R. Port, Claude Kwe Yinda, Irene Offei Owusu, Myndi Holbrook, Robert Fischer, Trenton Bushmaker, Victoria A. Avanzato, Jonathan E. Schulz, Neeltje van Doremalen, Chad S. Clancy, Vincent J. Munster. SARS-CoV-2 disease severity and transmission efficiency is increased for airborne but not fomite exposure in Syrian hamsters. 2021. Nature Communications. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25156-8

Meredith McClure, Carter Reed Hranac; Catherine Haase; Seth McGinnis; Brett Dickson; David T.S. Hayman; Liam McGuire; Cori Lausen; Raina K. Plowright; Nathan Fuller; Sarah Olson. Projecting the compound effects of climate change and white-nose syndrome. 2021. Climate Change Ecology. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecochg.2021.100047

Devin N. Jones, Ny Anjara Fifi Ravelomanantsoa, Carl J. Yeoman, Raina K. Plowright, Cara E. Brook Do gastrointestinal microbiomes play a role in bats’ unique viral hosting capacity? 2021. Trends in Microbiology. doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2021.12.009

Lunn T, Peel A., Eby P, Brooks R., Plowright RK, Kessler M, McCallum H. Counterintuitive scaling between population size and density: implications for modelling transmission of infectious diseases in bat populations. 2021. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13634

Liam McGuire, Nathan W Fuller, Yvonne A. Dzal, Catherine G Haase, Brandon J Klug-Baerwald, Kirk A Silas, Raina K Plowright, Cori L Lausen, Craig Willis, and Sarah H Olson. Interspecific variation in evaporative water loss and temperature response, but not metabolic rate, among hibernating bats. 2021. Scientific Reports. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00266-x

M. Ruiz-Aravena, C. McKee, A. Gamble, T. Lunn, A. Morris, C.E. Snedden, C.K. Yinda, J.R. Port, D.W. Buchholz, Y.Y. Yeo, C. Faust, E. Jax, L. Dee, D. Jones, M. Kessler, C. Falvo, D. Crowley, N. Bharti, C.E. Brook, H.C. Aguilar, A. J. Peel, O. Restif, T. Schountz, C.R. Parrish, E.S. Gurley, J.O. Lloyd-Smith, P.J. Hudson, V.J. Munster, R.K. Plowright. Ecology, evolution, and spillover of coronaviruses from bats. 2021. Nature Reviews Microbiology. doi: 10.1038/s41579-021-00652-2

CK Glidden, N Nova, MP Kain, KM Lagerstrom, Skinner EB, Mandle L, Sokolow SH, Plowright RK, Dirzo R, Leo GAD, Mordecai EA. Impacts of anthropogenic change on biodiversity affects disease spillover risk. 2021. Current Biology. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.070

Lunn T, Eby P, McCallum H, Plowright RK, Kessler M, Peel A. Conventional wisdom on roosting behaviour of Australian flying foxes - a critical review, and evaluation using new data. doi: 10.1002/ece3.8079.

Plowright RK and Hudson PJ. From Protein to Pandemic: The transdisciplinary approach to prevent the next pandemic. 2021. Viruses, 13, 1298. doi: 10.3390/v13071298.

Lunn, Tamika; Peel, Alison; McCallum, Hamish; Eby, Peggy; Kessler, Maureen; Plowright, Raina; Restif, Olivier. Spatial dynamics of pathogen transmission in communally roosting species: impacts of changing habitats on bat-virus dynamics. 2021. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13566.

Giles, John; Peel, Alison; Wells, Konstans; Plowright, K. Raina; McCallum, Hamish; Restif, Olivier, Optimizing non-invasive sampling of an infectious bat virus. Ecology and Evolution.

McClure, M.L., Haase, C.G., Crowley, D., Hranac, C.R., Hayman, D.T.S., Mcguire, L.P., Dickson, B.G., Fuller, N.W., Plowright, R.K., Lausen, C.L., Olson, S.H., A hybrid correlative-mechanistic approach for modeling and mapping winter distributions of western bat species. 2021. Journal of Biogeography.

Snedden CE, Makanani SK, Schwartz ST, Gamble A, Blakey RV, Borremans B, Helman SK, Espericueta L, Valencia A, Endo A, Alfaro ME, Lloyd-Smith JO. SARS-CoV-2: Cross-scale insights from ecology and evolution. 2021. Trends in Microbiology.

Yinda CK, Port JR, Bushmaker T, Owusu IO, Purushotham JN, Avanzato VA, Fischer RJ, Schulz JE, Holbrook MG, Hebner MJ, Rosenke R. K18-hACE2 mice develop respiratory disease resembling severe COVID-19. 2021. PLoS pathogens. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1009195.

Barbosa A, Varsani A, Morandini V, Grimaldi W, Vanstreels RE, Diaz JI, Boulinier T, Dewar M, González-Acuña D, Gray R, McMahon CR. Risk assessment of SARS-CoV-2 in Antarctic wildlife. 2021. Science of the Total Environment. doi:j.scitotenv.2020.143352.

Morris DH, Yinda KC, Gamble A, Rossine FW, Huang Q, Bushmaker T, Fischer RJ, Matson MJ, van Doremalen N, Vikesland PJ, Marr LC, Munster VJ, Lloyd-Smith JO. Mechanistic theory predicts the effects of temperature and humidity on inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses. 2021. eLife. doi: 10.1101/2020.10.16.341883.

Plowright R.K., J. K. Reaser, H. Locke, S. Woodley, J. A. Patz, D. J. Becker, G. Oppler, Peter J. Hudson, and G. Tabor. Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health. 2021. Lancet Planetary Health doi:10.32942/osf.io/cru9w

Clifton D. McKee, Ausraful Islam, Stephen P. Luby, Henrik Salje, Peter J. Hudson, Raina K. Plowright, Emily S. Gurley. The ecology of Nipah virus in Bangladesh: a nexus of land use change and opportunistic feeding behavior in bats. 2021. Viruses. doi:10.3390/v13020169

J. Reaser, GM Tabor, RA Chitale, PJ Hudson, RK Plowright. Ecological countermeasures for preventing zoonotic disease outbreaks: when ecological restoration is a human health imperative. 2021. Restoration Ecology. doi: 10.1111/rec.13357

Jamie K. Reaser, Gary M. Tabor, Daniel J. Becker, Philip Muruthi, Arne Witt, Stephen J. Woodley, Manuel Ruiz-Aravena, Jonathan A. Patz, Valerie Hickey, Peter J. Hudson, Harvey Locke, Raina K. Plowright. Land Use-Induced Spillover: Priority Actions for Protected and Conserved Area Managers. 2021. PARKS. doi:10.32942/osf.io/bmfhw

2020

R.O. Mummah, N.A. Hoff, A. W. Rimoin, J. O. Lloyd-Smith. (2020) Controlling emerging zoonoses at the animal-human interface. One Health Outlook. 2:17. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42522-020-00024-5

K. M. Gostic, A.C.R. Gomez, R.O. Mummah, A.J. Kucharski, J.O. Lloyd-Smith. Estimated effectiveness of symptom and risk screening to prevent the spread of COVID-19. 2020. eLife. 9: e55570. https://elifesciences.org/articles/55570

Rosenke K, Meade-White K, Letko M, Clancy C, Hansen F, Liu Y, Okumura A, Tang-Huau TL, Li R, Saturday G, Feldmann F. Defining the Syrian hamster as a highly susceptible preclinical model for SARS-CoV-2 infection. 2020. Emerging Microbes & Infections. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1858177.

Matson MJ, Yinda CK, Seifert SN, Bushmaker T, Fischer RJ, van Doremalen N, Lloyd-Smith JO, Munster VJ. Effect of environmental conditions on SARS-CoV-2 stability in human nasal mucus and sputum. 2020. Emerging infectious diseases. doi:10.3201/eid2609.202267.

van Doremalen N, Haddock E, Feldmann F, Meade-White K, Bushmaker T, Fischer R, Okumura A, Hanley P, Saturday G, Edwards N, Clark M. A single dose of ChAdOx1 MERS provides protective immunity in rhesus macaques. 2020. Science Advances. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aba8399.

Borremans B, Gamble A, Prager KC, Helman SK, McClain AM, Cox C, Savage V, Lloyd-Smith JO. Quantifying antibody kinetics and RNA detection during early-phase SARS-CoV-2 infection by time since symptom onset. 2020. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.60122.

Munster VJ, Feldmann F, Williamson BN, Van Doremalen N, Pérez-Pérez L, Schulz J, Meade-White K, Okumura A, Callison J, Brumbaugh B, Avanzato VA. Respiratory disease in rhesus macaques inoculated with SARS-CoV-2. 2020. Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2324-7.

Becker, Daniel; Speer, Kelly; Korstian, Jennifer; Volokhov, Dmitriy; Droke, Hannah; Brown, Alexis; Baijnauth, Catherene; Padgett-Stewart, Ticha; Broders, Hugh; Plowright, K. Raina; Rainwater, Thomas; Fenton, Brock; Simmons, Nancy; Chumchal, Matthew. Disentangling interactions between mercury, immunity, and infection in a Neotropical bat community. 2020. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13809

Haase, C.G., Fuller, N.W. , Dzal, Y.A., Hranac, C.R., Hayman, T.S., Lausen, C.L., McGuire, L.P., Silas, K.A., Olson, S.H., Plowright, R.K., Body mass and hibernation microclimate may predict bat susceptibility to white-nose syndrome. 2020. Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1002/ece3.7070

McClure, M.L., Crowley, D., Haase, C.G., McGuire, L.P., Fuller, N.W., Hayman, D.T.S., Lausen, C.L., Plowright, R.K., Dickson, B.G., Olson, S.H. Linking surface and subterranean climate: implications for the study of hibernating bats and other cave dwellers. 2020. Ecosphere. doi:10.1002/ecs2.3274

Rocha, R., S.A. Aziz, C.E. Brook, W.D. Carvalho, R. Cooper‐Bohannon, W.F. Frick, J.C.‐C. Huang, T. Kingston, A. López‐Baucells, B. Maas, F. Mathews, R.A. Medellin, K.J. Olival, A.J. Peel, R.K. Plowright, O. Razgour, H. Rebelo, L. Rodrigues, S.J. Rossiter, D. Russo, T.M. Straka, E.C. Teeling, T. Treuer, C.C. Voigt, P.W. Webala. Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: a research agenda to prevent misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID‐19. 2020. Animal Conservation. doi:10.1111/acv.12636

Fischer RJ, Morris DH, van Doremalen N, Sarchette S, Matson MJ, Bushmaker T, Yinda CK, Seifert SN, Gamble A, Williamson BN, Judson SD, de Wit E, Lloyd-Smith JO, Munster VJ. Effectiveness of N95 Respirator Decontamination and Reuse against SARS-CoV-2 Virus. 2020. Emerg Infect Dis. doi: 10.3201/eid2609.201524.

Alison J. Peel, Hume E. Field, Manuel Ruiz Aravena, Daniel Edson, Hamish McCallum, Raina K. Plowright and Diana Prada. Coronaviruses and Australian bats: a review in the midst of a pandemic. 2020. Australian Journal of Zoology. doi.org/10.1071/ZO20046

Eby, Peggy, Plowright, Raina, Mccallum, Hamish, Peel, Alison. Conditions predict heightened Hendra virus spillover risk in horses this winter: actions now can change outcomes. 2020. Australian Veterinary Journal. doi:10.1111/avj.12964

Olival, K., Cryan, P., Amman, B., Baric, R., Blehert, D., Brook, C., Calisher, C., Castle, K., Coleman, J., Daszak, P., Epstein, J., Field, H., Frick, W., Gilbert, A., Hayman, D., Ip, H., Karesh, W., Johnson, C., Kading, R., Kingston, T., Lorch, J., Mendenhall, I., Peel, A., Phelps, K., Plowright, RK., Reeder, D., Reichard, J., Sleeman, J., Streicker, D., Towner, J. & Wang, L.F. Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: a case study of bats2020. PLOS Pathogens. doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008758

Letko, M., Seifert, S., Olival, K.J., Plowright, R., Munster, V. Bat-borne virus diversity, spillover and emergence. 2020. Nature Reviews Microbiology. doi.org:10.1038/s41579-020-0394-z

Crowley, Daniel, Daniel Becker, Alex Washburn, Raina Plowright. Identifying suspect bat reservoirs of emerging Infections. 2020. Vaccines. doi.org:10.3390/vaccines8020228.

Becker, Daniel J, Kelly A. Speer, Alexis M. Brown, M. Brock Fenton, Alex D. Washburne, Sonia Altizer, Daniel G. Streicker, Raina K. Plowright, Vladimir E. Chizhikov, Nancy B. Simmons, Dmitriy V. Volokhov. Ecological and evolutionary drivers of hemoplasma infection and bacterial genotype sharing in a Neotropical bat community. 2020. Molecurlar Ecology. doi:10.1111/mec.15422

Julia R. Port, Claude Kwe Yinda, Irene Offei Owusu, Myndi Holbrook, Robert Fischer, Trenton Bushmaker, Victoria A. Avanzato, Jonathan E. Schulz, Neeltje van Doremalen, Chad S. Clancy, Vincent J. Munster. SARS-CoV-2 disease severity and transmission efficiency is increased for airborne but not fomite exposure in Syrian hamsters. 2020. Nature Communications.

van Doremalen, N., T. Bushmaker, D. H. Morris, M. G. Holbrook, A. Gamble, B. N. Williamson, A. Tamin, J. L. Harcourt, N. J. Thornburg, S. I. Gerber, J. O. Lloyd-Smith, E. de Wit, and V. J. Munster. Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1. 2020. New England Journal of Medicine. doi:10.1056/NEJMc2004973

Gostic, Katelyn, Ana C. R. Gomez, Riley O. Mummah, Adam J. Kucharski, James O. Lloyd-Smith. Estimated effectiveness of symptom and risk screening to prevent the spread of COVID-19. 2020. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.55570

Brook, Cara E, Mike Boots, Kartik Chandran, Andrew P Dobson, Christian Drosten, Andrea L Graham, Bryan T Grenfell, Marcel A Müller, Melinda Ng, Lin-Fa Wang, Anieke van Leeuwen. Accelerated viral dynamics in bat cell lines, with implications for zoonotic emergence. 2020. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.48401

Letko, Michael, Vincent Munster. Functional assessment of cell entry and receptor usage for lineage B β-coronaviruses, including 2019-nCoV. 2020. Nature Microbiology. doi:10.1038/s41564-020-0688-y

Munster VJ, Koopmans M, van Doremalen N, van Riel D, de Wit E. A novel coronavirus emerging in China — key questions for impact assessment. 2020. New England Journal of Medicine. doi:10.1056/NEJMp2000929

Banerjee A, Baker ML, Kulcsar K, Misra V, Plowright R. Mossman K. Novel Insights Into Immune Systems of Bats. 2020. Frontiers in Immunology. 11:26. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2020.00026

Williamson KM, Wheeler S, Kerr J, Bennett J, Freeman P, Kohlhagen J, et al. Hendra in the Hunter Valley. 2020. One Health. doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100162

Hopkins SR, Sokolow SH, Buck JC, Leo GAD, Jones IJ, Kwong LH, et al. How to identify win–win interventions that benefit human health and conservation. 2020. Nature Sustainability.

2019

K.  M.  Gostic, E. A. Wunder, V. Bisht, C. Hamond, T. R. Julian, A. I. Ko, J. O. Lloyd-Smith. Mechanistic dose-response modeling of animal challenge data shows that intact skin is a crucial barrier to leptospiral infection. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B. 2019. 374: 20190367.

Becker, Daniel J., Gregory F. Albery, Maureen K. Kessler, Tamika Lunn, Caylee A. Falvo, Gábor Á. Czirják, Lynn B. Martin, Raina K. Plowright. Macroimmunology: the drivers and consequences of spatial patterns in wildlife immune defense. 2019. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13166

Becker DJ, Crowley DE, Washburne AD, Plowright RK. Temporal and spatial limitations in global surveillance for bat filoviruses and henipaviruses. 2019. Biological Letters 15. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2019.0423

Ambrose MR, Kucharski AJ, Formenty P, Muyembe-Tamfum JJ, Rimoin AW, Lloyd-Smith JO. Quantifying transmission of emerging zoonoses: Using mathematical models to maximize the value of surveillance data. 2019. In review. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/677021

Becker, Daniel J., Gábor Á. Czirják, Agnieszka Rynda-Apple, Raina K. Plowright. Handling stress and sample storage are associated with weaker complement-mediated bactericidal ability in birds but not bats. 2019. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 92 (1). doi:10.1086/701069

Becker, D.J., C. Nachtmann, H.D. Argibay, G. Botto, G.A. Czirjak, M. Escalera-Zamudio, E. Winiarksi, A.D. Greenwood, E. Rojas-Anaya, E. Loza-Rubio, A. Lavergne, B. de Thoisy, R.K. Plowright, S. Altizer, D.G. Streicker. Leukocyte profiles reflect local environment and biogeography in a widespread Neotropical bat species.2019. Integrative and Comparative Biology. doi:10.1093/icb/icz007

Becker, Daniel J., Alex D. Washburne, Christina L Faust, Juliet R Pulliam, Erin A. Mordecai, James O. Lloyd-Smith, Raina K. Plowright. Dynamic and integrative approaches to understanding pathogen spillover. 2019. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374 (1782). doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0014

Borremans B, Faust C, Manlove KR, Sokolow SH, Lloyd-Smith JO. Cross-species pathogen spillover across ecosystem boundaries: mechanisms and theory. 2019. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374 (1782). doi:10.1098/rstb.2018.0344

Bradel-Tretheway BG, Zamora JL, Stone JA, Liu Q, Li J, Aguilar HC. Nipah and Hendra Virus Glycoproteins Induce Comparable Homologous but Distinct Heterologous Fusion Phenotypes. 2019. Journal of Virology 93 (13). doi:10.1128/JVI.00577-19

Brook CE, Boots M, Chandran K, Dobson AP, Drosten C, Graham AL, Grenfell BT, Müller MA, Ng M, Wang LF, Van Leeuwen A. Within-host dynamics of virulent viruses in bat reservoirs for emerging zoonotic disease. 2019. In review. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/696195

Brook CE, Ranaivoson HC, Andriafidison D, Ralisata M, Razafimanahaka J, Héraud JM, Dobson AP, Metcalf CJ. Population trends for two Malagasy fruit bats. 2019. Biological Conservation 234. doi:10.1016/j.biocon

Brook CE, Ranaivoson HC, Broder CC, Cunningham AA, Héraud JM, Peel AJ, Gibson L, Wood JL, Metcalf CJ, Dobson AP. Disentangling serology to elucidate henipa‐and filovirus transmission in Madagascar fruit bats. 2019. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12985

Edson D, Peel AJ, Huth L, Mayer DG, Vidgen ME, McMichael L, et al. Time of year, age class and body condition predict Hendra virus infection in Australian black flying foxes (Pteropus alecto). Epidemiol Infect. 2019. doi:147:e240.

Glennon, E.E., D.J. Becker, A.J. Peel, R. Garnier, R.D. Suu-Ire, L. Gibson, D.T.S. Hayman, J.L.N. Wood, A.A. Cunningham, R.K. Plowright, O. Restif. What's stirring in the reservoir? Modelling mechanisms of henipavirus circulation in fruit bat hosts. 2019. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374 (1782). doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0021

Gostic KM, Wunder Jr EA, Bisht V, Hamond C, Julian TR, Ko AI, Lloyd-Smith JO. Mechanistic dose–response modelling of animal challenge data shows that intact skin is a crucial barrier to leptospiral infection. 2019. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0367

Guth S, Visher E, Boots M, Brook CE. Host phylogenetic distance drives trends in virus virulence and transmissibility across the animal–human interface. 2019. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 374 (1782). doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0296

Haase, Catherine G., Nathan W. Fuller, C. Reed Hranac, David T.S. Hayman, Sarah H. Olson, Raina K. Plowright, Liam P. McGuire. Bats are not squirrels: Revisiting the cost of cooling in hibernating mammals. 2019. Journal of Thermal Biology 81 (C). doi:10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.01.013

Lunn, Tamika J., Olivier Restif, Alison J. Peel, Vincent J. Munster, Emmie de Wit, Sana Sokolow, Neeltje van Doremalen, Peter Hudson, Hamish McCallum. Dose–response and transmission: the nexus between reservoir hosts, environment and recipient hosts. 2019. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374 (1782). doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0016

Peel, Alison J., Konstans Wells, John Giles, Victoria Boyd, Amy Burroughs, Daniel Edson, Gary Crameri, Michelle L. Baker, Hume Field, Lin-Fa Wang, Hamish McCallum, Raina K. Plowright, Nicholas Clark. Synchronous shedding of multiple bat paramyxoviruses coincides with peak periods of Hendra virus spillover. 2019. Emerging Microbes & Infections 8 (1). doi:10.1080/22221751.2019.1661217

Plowright Raina K., Daniel J. Becker, Daniel E. Crowley, Alex D. Washburne, Tao Huang, P. O. Nameer, Emily S. Gurley, Barbara A. Han. Prioritizing surveillance of Nipah virus in India. 2019. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13 (6). doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0007393

Sokolow, Susanne H., Nicole Nova, Kim Pepin, Alison J. Peel, Kezia Manlove, Paul Cross, Daniel Becker, Raina K. Plowright, Juliet Pulliam, Hamish McCallum, Giulio De Leo. Ecological levers to prevent and manage zoonotic pathogen spillover. 2019. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374 (1782). doi:10.1098/rstb.2018.0342

Gostic KM, Wunder Jr EA, Bisht V, Hamond C, Julian TR, Ko AI, Lloyd-Smith JO. Mechanistic dose–response modelling of animal challenge data shows that intact skin is a crucial barrier to leptospiral infection. 2019. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374 (1782). doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0367

Washburne, Alex D., Daniel E. Crowley, Daniel J. Becker, Kezia R. Manlove, Marissa L. Childs, Raina K. Plowright. Percolation models of pathogen spillover. 2019. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374 (1782). doi:10.1098/rstb.2018.0331

Washburne Alex D., Justin D. Silverman, James T. Morton, Daniel J. Becker, Daniel Crowley, Sayan Mukherjee, Lawrence A. David, Raina K. Plowright. Phylofactorization: a graph-partitioning algorithm to identify phylogenetic scales of ecological data. 2019. Ecological Monographs. doi:10.1002/ecm.1353

Wasik BR, de Wit E, Munster V, Lloyd-Smith JO, Martinez-Sobrido L, Parrish CR. Onward transmission of viruses: how do viruses emerge to cause epidemics after spillover? 2019. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0017

Wright, W.J., K.M. Irvine, and M.D. Higgs. Identifying occupancy model inadequacies: can residuals separately assess detection and presence? 2019. Ecology 100 (3). doi:10.1002/ecy.2703


2018

Altizer, Sonia, Daniel J. Becker, Jonathan H. Epstein, Kristian M. Forbes, Thomas R. Gillespie, Richard J. Hall, Dana M. Hawley, Sonia M. Hernandez, Lynn B. Martin, Raina K. Plowright, Dara A. Satterfield, Daniel G. Streicker. Food for contagion: synthesis and future directions for studying host–parasite responses to resource shifts in anthropogenic environments. 2018. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373 (1745). doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0102

Becker, Daniel J., Richard J. Hall, Kristian M. Forbes, Raina K. Plowright, Sonia Altizer. Anthropogenic resource subsidies and host–parasite dynamics in wildlife. 2018. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373 (1745). doi:/10.1098/rstb.2017.0086

Faust, Christina L., Hamish I McCallum, Laura S. Bloomfield, Nicole L. Gottdenker, Thomas R. Gillespie, Colin J. Torney, Andrew P. Dobson, Raina K. Plowright. Pathogen spillover during land conversion. 2018. Ecology Letters 21 (4). doi:/10.1111/ele.12904

Giles, John R., Peggy Eby, Hazel Parry, Alison J. Peel, Raina K. Plowright, David A. Westcott & Hamish McCallum. Environmental drivers of spatiotemporal foraging intensity in fruit bats (Pteropus poliocephalus). 2018. Scientific Reports. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-27859-3

Kessler Maureen K., Daniel J. Becker, Alison J. Peel, Nathan V. Justice, Tamika Lunn, Daniel E. Crowley, Devin N. Jones, Peggy Eby, Cecilia A. Sánchez, Raina K. Plowright. Changing resource landscapes and spillover of henipaviruses. 2018. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1111/nyas.13910

Martin, Gerardo, Daniel J. Becker, Raina K. Plowright. Environmental Persistence of Influenza H5N1 Is Driven by Temperature and Salinity: Insights From a Bayesian Meta-Analysis. 2018. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6. doi:10.3389/fevo.2018.00131

Martin, Gerardo, Carlos Yanez-Arenas, Raina K. Plowright, Carla Chen, Billie Roberts, Lee F. Skerratt. Hendra Virus Spillover is a Bimodal System Driven by Climatic Factors. 2018. EcoHealth. doi:10.1007/s10393-017-1309-y

Martin, Gerardo, Carlos Yanez-Arenas, Carla Chen, Raina K. Plowright, Rebecca J. Webb, Lee F. Skerratt. Climate change could increase the extent of areas at risk of Hendra virus spillover. 2018. EcoHealth 15 (3). doi:10.1007/s10393-018-1322-9

Páez, David J., Olivier Restif, Peggy Eby, Raina K. Plowright. Optimal foraging in seasonal environments: implications for residency of Australian flying foxes in food-subsidized urban landscapes. 2018. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373 (1745). doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0097

Washburne, Alex D., Daniel E. Crowley, Daniel J. Becker, Kevin J. Olival, Matthew Taylor, Vincent J. Munster, and Raina K. Plowright. Taxonomic patterns in the zoonotic potential of mammalian viruses. 2018. PeerJ 6:e5979. doi:10.7717/peerj.5979

2017

Faust, CL, Dobson AP, Gottdenker N, Bloomfield LSP, McCallum HI, Gillespie TR, Diuk-Wasser M, Plowright RK. Null expectations for disease dynamics in shrinking habitat patches: dilution or amplification? 2017. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0173

Jeong J, Smith CS, Peel AJ, Plowright RK, Kerlin DH, McBroom J, McCallum H. Persistent infections maintain a coronavirus in a population of Australian bats (Myotis macropus). 2017. Epidemiology and Infection. doi: 10.1017/S0950268817000991

Martin, G, Webb RJ, Chen CCM, Plowright RK, Skerratt LF. Microclimates might limit indirect transmission of the bat borne zoonotic Hendra virus. 2017. Microbial Ecology. doi: 10.1007/s00248-017-0934-x

Paez, D. J., J. Giles, H. McCallum, H Field, D. Jordan, A.J. Peel, R.K. Plowright. Conditions affecting the timing and magnitude of Hendra virus shedding across pteropodid bat populations in Australia. 2017. Epidemiology and Infection 145 (15). doi:10.1017/S0950268817002138

Peel, AJ, Eby P, Kessler M, Lunn T, Breed AC, Plowright RK. Hendra virus spillover risk in horses: urging heightened vigilance and precautions this winter. 2017. Australian Veterinary Journal 97 (7).

Plowright, RK, Parrish C, McCallum H, Hudson PJ, Ko A, Graham A, Loyd-Smith J. Pathways to zoonotic spillover. 2017. Nature Reviews Microbiology 15 (8). doi: 10.1038/nrmicro.2017.45

Voigt, CC, Frick WF, Holderied MW, Holland R, Kerth G, Mello MAR, Plowright RK, Swartz S, Yovel Y. Principles and Patterns of Bat Movements: From Aerodynamics to Ecology. 2017. The Quarterly Review of Biology 92 (3). doi: 10.1086/693847

2016 and Prior

Giles JR, Plowright RK, Eby P, Peel AJ, McCallum H. Models of Eucalypt phenology predict bat population flux. 2016. Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1002/ece3.2382

Plowright RK, Peel A, Streicker D, Gilbert A, McCallum H, Wood J, Baker M, Restif O. Transmission or within-host processes driving pulses of infection in reservoir hosts. 2016. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(8):e0004796. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004796

Peel AJ, Field H, Reid PA, Plowright RK, Broder CC, Skerratt LF, Hayman DTS, Restif O, et al. The equine Hendra virus vaccine remains a highly effective preventative measure against infection in horses and humans. ‘The imperative to develop a human vaccine for the Hendra virus in Australia. 2016. Infection, Ecology and Epidemiology, 6:31658. doi:10.3402/iee.v6.31658

Plowright RK, Eby P, Hudson PJ, Smith IL, Westcott D, Bryden WL, Middleton D, Reid PA, McFarlane RA, Martin G, Tabor GM, Skerratt LF, Anderson DL, Crameri G, Quammen D, Jordan D, Freeman P, Wang L, Epstein JH, Marsh GA, Kung NY, McCallum H. Ecological dynamics emerging bat virus spillover. 2015. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 282:20142124. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2124 (Web of Science “Hot paper” and “Highly cited paper”)

Peel A, Luis A, Pulliam J, Plowright RK, Hayman D, O’Shea T, Wood J, Webb C, Restif O. The effect of seasonal birth pulses on pathogen persistence in wild mammal populations. 2014. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 281:20132962. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2962

O’Shea TJ, Cryan PM, Cunningham AA, Hayman DTS, Luis AD, Peel AJ, Plowright RK, Wood JLN. Bat flight and emerging zoonotic viruses. 2014. Emerging Infectious Diseases. doi:10.3201/eid2005.130539

Gilbert AT, Fooks AR, Hayman D, Horton DL, Müller T, Plowright RK, Peel AJ, Bowen R, Wood JLN, Mills J, Cunningham AA, Rupprecht CE. Deciphering serology to understand the ecology of infectious diseases in wildlife. 2013. EcoHealth, 1-16. doi:10.1007/s10393-013-0856-0

Restif O, Hayman DT, Pulliam JR, Plowright RK, George DB, Luis AD, Cunningham AA, Bowen RA, Fooks AR, O’Shea TJ, Wood JLN, Webb CT. Model-guided fieldwork: practical guidelines for multidisciplinary research on wildlife ecological and epidemiological dynamics. 2012. Ecology Letters, 15:1083-1094. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01836.x