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Daniel J. Becker is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Parasitology.

The work of Daniel J. Becker focuses on a range of interconnected topics involving viral infections, zoonotic diseases, and wildlife ecology. Key areas of study include:

  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Rabies epidemiology and control
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology

They have been published most frequently in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Journal of Animal Ecology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel J. Becker include:

  • "Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs," 2022, The Lancet Microbe
  • "Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts," 2022, Ecology Letters
  • "Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health," 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "The science of the host-virus network," 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • "Fast-lived Hosts and Zoonotic Risk," 2020, Trends in Parasitology

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Colin J. Carlson
  • Nancy B. Simmons
  • Gregory F. Albery
  • M. Brock Fenton
  • Raina K. Plowright

Best Publications

  • Linking anthropogenic resources to wildlife-pathogen dynamics: a review and meta-analysis.

    Daniel J. Becker;Daniel G. Streicker;Daniel G. Streicker;Sonia Altizer

  • Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health.

    Raina K Plowright;Jamie K Reaser;Harvey Locke;Stephen J Woodley

  • Wildlife health and supplemental feeding: A review and management recommendations

    Maureen H. Murray;Daniel J. Becker;Richard J. Hall;Sonia M. Hernandez

  • On the relationship between body condition and parasite infection in wildlife: a review and meta‐analysis

    Cecilia A. Sánchez;Daniel J. Becker;Daniel J. Becker;Claire S. Teitelbaum;Paola Barriga

  • City sicker? A meta-analysis of wildlife health and urbanization

    Maureen H. Murray;Cecilia A. Sánchez;Daniel J. Becker;Daniel J. Becker;Kaylee A. Byers;Kaylee A. Byers

  • Ecological interventions to prevent and manage zoonotic pathogen spillover

    Susanne H. Sokolow;Susanne H. Sokolow;Nicole Nova;Kim M. Pepin;Alison J. Peel

  • Too much of a good thing: resource provisioning alters infectious disease dynamics in wildlife

    Daniel J. Becker;Richard J. Hall

  • Changing resource landscapes and spillover of henipaviruses

    Maureen K. Kessler;Daniel J. Becker;Daniel J. Becker;Alison J. Peel;Nathan V. Justice

  • Macroimmunology: The drivers and consequences of spatial patterns in wildlife immune defence.

    Daniel J. Becker;Daniel J. Becker;Gregory F. Albery;Maureen K. Kessler;Tamika J. Lunn

  • Demographic and environmental drivers of metagenomic viral diversity in vampire bats

    Laura M. Bergner;Richard J. Orton;Julio A. Benavides;Julio A. Benavides;Daniel J. Becker;Daniel J. Becker

  • Sampling to elucidate the dynamics of infections in reservoir hosts

    Raina K Plowright;Daniel J Becker;Daniel J Becker;Daniel J Becker;Hamish McCallum;Kezia R Manlove

  • Habitat fragmentation is associated with dietary shifts and microbiota variability in common vampire bats.

    Melissa R. Ingala;Daniel J. Becker;Daniel J. Becker;Jacob Bak Holm;Karsten Kristiansen

  • Livestock abundance predicts vampire bat demography, immune profiles and bacterial infection risk

    Daniel J. Becker;Daniel J. Becker;Gábor Á. Czirják;Dmitriy V. Volokhov;Alexandra B. Bentz;Alexandra B. Bentz

  • Urban-adapted mammal species have more known pathogens

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  • Phylofactorization: a graph partitioning algorithm to identify phylogenetic scales of ecological data

    Alex D. Washburne;Justin D. Silverman;James T. Morton;Daniel J. Becker

  • Using host species traits to understand the consequences of resource provisioning for host–parasite interactions

    Daniel J. Becker;Daniel G. Streicker;Daniel G. Streicker;Sonia Altizer

  • Using noninvasive metagenomics to characterize viral communities from wildlife

    Laura M. Bergner;Richard J. Orton;Ana da Silva Filipe;Andrew E. Shaw

  • Food for Contagion: Synthesis and Future Directions for Studying Host–Parasite Responses to Resource Shifts in Anthropogenic Environments

    Sonia Altizer;Daniel J. Becker;Jonathan H. Epstein;Kristian M. Forbes

  • Mercury bioaccumulation in bats reflects dietary connectivity to aquatic food webs.

    Daniel J. Becker;Matthew M. Chumchal;Hugh G. Broders;Jennifer M. Korstian

  • Predictors and immunological correlates of sublethal mercury exposure in vampire bats.

    Daniel J. Becker;Matthew M. Chumchal;Alexandra B. Bentz;Steven G. Platt

  • Novel hemotropic mycoplasmas are widespread and genetically diverse in vampire bats.

    D. V. Volokhov;D. J. Becker;L. M. Bergner;M. S. Camus

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy B. Simmons
Nancy B. Simmons American Museum of Natural History
Sonia Altizer
Sonia Altizer University of Georgia
M. Brock Fenton
M. Brock Fenton University of Western Ontario
Gábor Á. Czirják
Gábor Á. Czirják Leibniz Association
Ellen D. Ketterson
Ellen D. Ketterson Indiana University
Sadie J. Ryan
Sadie J. Ryan University of Florida
Kristen J. Navara
Kristen J. Navara University of Georgia
Lynn B. Martin
Lynn B. Martin University of South Florida
Michael C. Schatz
Michael C. Schatz Johns Hopkins University
Peter J. Hudson
Peter J. Hudson Pennsylvania State University

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