Vanessa Ezenwa
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Vanessa Ezenwa's Degrees
- PhD Ecology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Ecology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Biology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Vanessa Olivia Ezenwa is an American ecologist who is a professor at the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. Her research considers the ecology of infectious diseases amongst animal populations. In 2020, she was selected by The Community of Scholars as one of the most Inspiring Black scientists in the United States.
Vanessa Ezenwa's Published Works
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Published Works
- A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity (2017) (1501)
- Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies (2003) (670)
- Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies (2003) (670)
- Animal Behavior and the Microbiome (2012) (382)
- Avian diversity and West Nile virus: testing associations between biodiversity and infectious disease risk (2006) (295)
- Biodiversity Loss Affects Global Disease Ecology (2009) (222)
- Interactions between macroparasites and microparasites drive infection patterns in free-ranging African buffalo. (2008) (222)
- Hidden Consequences of Living in a Wormy World: Nematode‐Induced Immune Suppression Facilitates Tuberculosis Invasion in African Buffalo (2010) (213)
- Infecting epidemiology with genetics: a new frontier in disease ecology. (2009) (204)
- Effects of Vulture Declines on Facultative Scavengers and Potential Implications for Mammalian Disease Transmission (2012) (199)
- Host social behavior and parasitic infection: a multifactorial approach (2004) (178)
- Heterogeneity in pathogen transmission: mechanisms and methodology (2016) (164)
- Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats (2020) (146)
- From host immunity to pathogen invasion: the effects of helminth coinfection on the dynamics of microparasites. (2011) (146)
- Opposite effects of anthelmintic treatment on microbial infection at individual versus population scales (2015) (132)
- The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts. (2016) (123)
- Host behaviour–parasite feedback: an essential link between animal behaviour and disease ecology (2016) (113)
- Comparative analysis of ear-hole closure identifies epimorphic regeneration as a discrete trait in mammals (2016) (110)
- Host traits and parasite species richness in even and odd-toed hoofed mammals, Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla (2006) (107)
- Microbes and animal olfactory communication: Where do we go from here? (2014) (106)
- Does animal behavior underlie covariation between hosts' exposure to infectious agents and susceptibility to infection? Implications for disease dynamics. (2011) (105)
- Interactions among host diet, nutritional status and gastrointestinal parasite infection in wild bovids. (2004) (103)
- Habitat overlap and gastrointestinal parasitism in sympatric African bovids (2003) (102)
- Unravelling complex associations between testosterone and parasite infection in the wild (2012) (95)
- Candidate gene microsatellite variation is associated with parasitism in wild bighorn sheep (2008) (95)
- Land cover variation and West Nile virus prevalence: patterns, processes, and implications for disease control. (2007) (87)
- Selective defecation and selective foraging: Antiparasite behavior in wild ungulates? (2004) (85)
- Global Mammal Parasite Database version 2.0. (2017) (84)
- Population genetic structure and history of a generalist parasite infecting multiple sympatric host species. (2011) (77)
- Does the impact of biodiversity differ between emerging and endemic pathogens? The need to separate the concepts of hazard and risk (2017) (61)
- Group living and pathogen infection revisited (2016) (60)
- Refugia and anthelmintic resistance: Concepts and challenges (2019) (58)
- A reliable body condition scoring technique for estimating condition in African buffalo (2009) (57)
- Horns honestly advertise parasite infection in male and female African buffalo (2008) (55)
- Helminth–microparasite co‐infection in wildlife: lessons from ruminants, rodents and rabbits (2016) (53)
- Resource limitation alters the consequences of co-infection for both hosts and parasites. (2015) (48)
- Rift valley Fever in Kruger national park: do buffalo play a role in the inter-epidemic circulation of virus? (2015) (45)
- Effects of supplemental feeding on gastrointestinal parasite infection in elk (Cervus elaphus): preliminary observations. (2007) (42)
- Tick infestation patterns in free ranging African buffalo (Syncercus caffer): Effects of host innate immunity and niche segregation among tick species☆ (2012) (40)
- EVALUATION OF HEMATOLOGIC VALUES IN FREE-RANGING AFRICAN BUFFALO (SYNCERUS CAFFER) (2009) (40)
- Innate Immunity in Free-Ranging African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer): Associations with Parasite Infection and White Blood Cell Counts (2012) (39)
- Nematode–coccidia parasite co-infections in African buffalo: Epidemiology and associations with host condition and pregnancy (2014) (38)
- A combined parasitological molecular approach for noninvasive characterization of parasitic nematode communities in wild hosts (2015) (38)
- Ancient conservation of trinucleotide microsatellite loci in polistine wasps. (1998) (37)
- Differential host responses to parasitism shape divergent fitness costs of infection (2018) (35)
- Direct and indirect costs of co-infection in the wild: Linking gastrointestinal parasite communities, host hematology, and immune function☆ (2012) (34)
- Context-dependent survival, fecundity and predicted population-level consequences of brucellosis in African buffalo. (2015) (33)
- MUTUALISM OR PARASITISM? USING A PHYLOGENETIC APPROACH TO CHARACTERIZE THE OXPECKER‐UNGULATE RELATIONSHIP (2011) (29)
- Opposite outcomes of coinfection at individual and population scales (2018) (28)
- Ungulates as model systems for the study of disease processes in natural populations (2015) (28)
- Gauging support for macroecological patterns in helminth parasites (2018) (28)
- Interdisciplinarity and Infectious Diseases: An Ebola Case Study (2015) (26)
- Parasite infection rates of impala (Aepyceros melampus) in fenced game reserves in relation to reserve characteristics (2004) (24)
- Disentangling complex parasite interactions: Protection against cerebral malaria by one helminth species is jeopardized by co-infection with another (2018) (22)
- Within guild co-infections influence parasite community membership: a longitudinal study in African Buffalo. (2016) (22)
- EVALUATION OF THE SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY OF AN ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY FOR DIAGNOSING BRUCELLOSIS IN AFRICAN BUFFALO (SYNCERUS CAFFER) (2015) (22)
- Enemies and turncoats: bovine tuberculosis exposes pathogenic potential of Rift Valley fever virus in a common host, African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) (2015) (21)
- Ecology of potential West Nile virus vectors in Southeastern Louisiana: enzootic transmission in the relative absence of Culex quinquefasciatus. (2013) (20)
- Interactions between Micro- and Macroparasites Predict Microparasite Species Richness across Primates (2014) (19)
- PREVALENCE OF ANTIBODIES TO CANINE PARVOVIRUS AND DISTEMPER VIRUS IN WOLVES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKY MOUNTAINS (2012) (18)
- Host immunity, nutrition and coinfection alter longitudinal infection patterns of schistosomes in a free ranging African buffalo population (2017) (18)
- Experimental insight into the process of parasite community assembly. (2016) (17)
- Unravelling the Costs of Flight for Immune Defenses in the Migratory Monarch Butterfly. (2016) (17)
- Parasite sharing in wild ungulates and their predators: Effects of phylogeny, range overlap, and trophic links. (2019) (16)
- Social living simultaneously increases infection risk and decreases the cost of infection (2018) (16)
- Drivers and consequences of variation in individual social connectivity (2017) (15)
- Reciprocal relationships between behaviour and parasites suggest that negative feedback may drive flexibility in male reproductive behaviour (2016) (14)
- Rainfall as a driver of seasonality in parasitism (2020) (14)
- Consequences of Food Restriction for Immune Defense, Parasite Infection, and Fitness in Monarch Butterflies (2016) (14)
- An Exploration of Diversity Among the Ostertagiinae (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) in Ungulates from Sub-Saharan Africa with a Proposal for a New Genus (2008) (13)
- Parasitism and host social behaviour: a meta-analysis of insights derived from social network analysis (2021) (13)
- Pathogen Exposure in Cattle at the Livestock-Wildlife Interface (2017) (12)
- Large wildlife removal drives immune defence increases in rodents (2016) (12)
- Muellerius capillaris Dominates the Lungworm Community of Bighorn Sheep at the National Bison Range, Montana (2010) (11)
- The effects of time of day on the prevalence of coccidian oocysts in antelope faecal samples (2003) (11)
- Signatures of natural and unnatural selection: evidence from an immune system gene in African buffalo (2015) (11)
- Co-infection and Nutrition: Integrating Ecological and Epidemiological Perspectives (2020) (10)
- Complex Tissue Regeneration in Mammals Is Associated With Reduced Inflammatory Cytokines and an Influx of T Cells (2020) (10)
- Anthelmintic treatment affects behavioural time allocation in a free-ranging ungulate (2015) (10)
- Coinfection and infection duration shape how pathogens affect the African buffalo gut microbiota (2020) (10)
- Identification of novel Theileria genotypes from Grant's gazelle (2015) (9)
- Context‐dependent costs and benefits of tuberculosis resistance traits in a wild mammalian host (2018) (9)
- Natural resistance to worms exacerbates bovine tuberculosis severity independently of worm coinfection (2020) (9)
- Exposure to Ebola Virus and Risk for Infection with Malaria Parasites, Rural Gabon (2020) (8)
- Large herbivore loss has complex effects on mosquito ecology and vector-borne disease risk. (2020) (8)
- Identifying correlates of Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis) infection in domestic dog populations (2020) (8)
- Bovine tuberculosis disturbs parasite functional trait composition in African buffalo (2019) (7)
- Regeneration-Competent and -Incompetent Murids Differ in Neutrophil Quantity and Function. (2019) (7)
- Infectious Diseases, Livestock, and Climate: A Vicious Cycle? (2020) (7)
- Limited sharing of tick-borne hemoparasites between sympatric wild and domestic ungulates. (2016) (7)
- The causes and consequences of parasite interactions: African buffalo as a case study (2019) (7)
- Noninvasive measures of stress response in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) reveal an age-dependent stress response to immobilization (2017) (7)
- Mammalian musculoskeletal regeneration is associated with reduced inflammatory cytokines and an influx of T cells (2019) (7)
- Patterns of buzz running, a pre-swarming behavior, in the Neotropical wasp Parachartergus colobopterus (1998) (6)
- Why did the buffalo cross the park? Resource shortages, but not infections, drive dispersal in female African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) (2019) (6)
- Research frontiers in ecological systems: evaluating the impacts of infectious disease on ecosystems. (2010) (6)
- Associations between testosterone and immune activity in alligators depend on bacteria species and temperature (2021) (4)
- Characterizing interactions between co-infecting parasites using age-intensity profiles. (2019) (4)
- COMPARISON OF MODIFIED FLOTAC AND BAERMANN TECHNIQUES FOR QUANTIFYING LUNGWORM LARVAE IN FREE-RANGING BIGHORN SHEEP (OVIS CANADENSIS) FECES, MONTANA, USA (2015) (4)
- Co-infection best predicts respiratory viral infection in a wild host. (2020) (4)
- Risk alleles for tuberculosis infection associate with reduced immune reactivity in a wild mammalian host (2019) (3)
- Infection with Mycoplasma gallisepticum Buffers the Effects of Acute Stress on Innate Immunity in House Finches (2014) (3)
- Sublethal effects of parasitism on ruminants can have cascading consequences for ecosystems (2022) (3)
- Interactions between chronic diseases: asymmetric outcomes of co-infection at individual and population scales (2017) (2)
- A comparison of two methods for quantifying parasitic nematode fecundity (2017) (2)
- Do predators keep prey healthy or make them sicker? A meta-analysis. (2021) (2)
- Immune stability predicts tuberculosis infection risk in a wild mammal (2019) (2)
- Season and prey identity mediate the effect of predators on parasites in rodents: a test of the healthy herds hypothesis (2022) (1)
- Helminth‐associated changes in host immune phenotype connect top‐down and bottom‐up interactions during co‐infection (2022) (1)
- Development and characterization of 30 novel microsatellite markers for Grant’s gazelle (Nanger granti) (2015) (1)
- A multi-species evaluation of digital wildlife monitoring using the Sigfox IoT network (2023) (1)
- The effects of experimental manipulation of predator communities on multiple parasites in prey populations (2019) (1)
- Population genetic structure and history of a generalist parasite infecting multiple sympatric host species q (2010) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Social living simultaneously increases infection risk and decreases the cost of infection" (2018) (0)
- Within-host and external environments differentially shape β-diversity across parasite life stages. (2022) (0)
- Applying Insights From Animal Behavior to Address Global Challenges (2018) (0)
- Alternative transmission pathways for guinea worm in dogs: implications for outbreak risk and control. (2021) (0)
- parasitism in wild bighorn sheep Candidate gene microsatellite variation is associated with (2009) (0)
- Signatures of natural and unnatural selection: evidence from an immune system gene in African buffalo (2014) (0)
- Schistosome CAA titers (2017) (0)
- Conservation Biology (2009) (0)
- Development and characterization of 30 novel microsatellite markers for Grant’s gazelle (Nanger granti) (2014) (0)
- ON SPONTANEOUS PROLIFERATION AND TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR INHIBITION IN TWO FELINE INJECTION-SITE SARCOMA CELL LINES , IN VITRO (2011) (0)
- Immune trade‐offs shape disease outcomes at individual and population scales (2019) (0)
- Predicting Disease Spread in Greater Yellowstone Ungulates Using Parasite DNA Markers (2006) (0)
- DR AF T Interactions between chronic infections : opposite outcomes of co-infection at individual and population scales (2018) (0)
- Seguel_Figure_S1_Tables_S1-S7_ESM.docx from Immune stability predicts tuberculosis infection risk in a wild mammal (2019) (0)
- Bovine tuberculosis in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer): Progression of pathology during infection (2022) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Risk alleles for tuberculosis infection associate with reduced immune reactivity in a wild mammalian host" (2019) (0)
- Adult-larvae matched nematode samples (2015) (0)
- coinfections — schistosomes and simian-human immunodeficiency virus , and malaria — (2015) (0)
- Response to Charlier et al.: Climate-Disease Feedbacks Mediated by Livestock Methane Emissions Are Plausible. (2021) (0)
- Ecological consequences of parasite-parasite interactions and the role of host immunity (2011) (0)
- Unravelling theCostsofFlight for ImmuneDefenses in theMigratory Monarch Butterfly (2016) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Immune stability predicts tuberculosis infection risk in a wild mammal" (2019) (0)
- A comparison of two methods for quantifying parasitic nematode fecundity (2017) (0)
- New innovations for 2018 and beyond. (2018) (0)
- Selected highlights from other journals: Impacts of anthelmintic treatment on bovine TB infection in African buffalo (2015) (0)
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