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Eric P. Hoberg is affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, predominantly Environmental Science, Medicine, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their work focuses on several interconnected subfields including Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Small Animals. Within these domains, key areas of research include Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, Helminth Infection and Control, Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, as well as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research including COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eric P. Hoberg include:

  • Daniel R. Brooks
  • Walter A. Boeger
  • Valeria Trivellone
  • Joseph A. Cook
  • Susan Kutz

Eric P. Hoberg has published extensively in several academic journals. The most common publication venues include:

  • MANTER Journal of Parasite Biodiversity
  • International Journal for Parasitology
  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Veterinary Parasitology
  • Scientific Reports

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Eric P. Hoberg are:

  • Leveraging natural history biorepositories as a global, decentralized, pathogen surveillance network, 2021, PLoS Pathogens
  • Hiding in plain sight: discovery and phylogeography of a cryptic species of Trichinella (Nematoda: Trichinellidae) in wolverine (Gulo gulo), 2020, International Journal for Parasitology
  • Emerging infectious disease: An underappreciated area of strategic concern for food security, 2021, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Wild ruminants as reservoirs of domestic livestock gastrointestinal nematodes, 2020, Veterinary Parasitology
  • Range expansion of muskox lungworms track rapid arctic warming: implications for geographic colonization under climate forcing, 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • How will global climate change affect parasite-host assemblages?

    Daniel R. Brooks;Eric P. Hoberg

  • Global warming is changing the dynamics of Arctic host–parasite systems

    S. J. Kutz;Eric P. Hoberg;L. Polley;E. J. Jenkins

  • A macroevolutionary mosaic: episodic host-switching, geographical colonization and diversification in complex host-parasite systems

    Eric P. Hoberg;Daniel R. Brooks

  • Evolution in action: climate change, biodiversity dynamics and emerging infectious disease.

    Eric P. Hoberg;Daniel R. Brooks

  • Out of Africa: origins of the Taenia tapeworms in humans.

    Eric P. Hoberg;Nancy L. Alkire;Alan de Queiroz;Arlene Jones

  • Understanding Host-Switching by Ecological Fitting

    Sabrina B. L. Araujo;Mariana Pires Braga;Daniel R. Brooks;Salvatore J. Agosta

  • Triage for the biosphere : The need and rationale for taxonomic inventories and phylogenetic studies of parasites

    D. R. Brooks;E. P. Hoberg

  • Phylogeny of the orders of the Eucestoda (Cercomeromorphae) based on comparative morphology: historical perspectives and a new working hypothesis.

    Hoberg Ep;Mariaux J;Justine Jl;Brooks Dr

  • Molecular taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of nematodes belonging to the Trichinella genus

    Edoardo Pozio;Eric Hoberg;Giuseppe La Rosa;Dante S. Zarlenga

  • Phylogeny of Taenia: Species definitions and origins of human parasites

    Eric P. Hoberg

  • Tradition and transition: parasitic zoonoses of people and animals in Alaska, northern Canada, and Greenland.

    Emily J Jenkins;Louisa J Castrodale;Simone J C de Rosemond;Brent R Dixon

  • Taenia tapeworms: their biology, evolution and socioeconomic significance.

    Eric P. Hoberg

  • NEW MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS FOR IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL SPECIMENS OF HAEMONCHUS SPP. (NEMATODA: TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA) AND A KEY TO SPECIES IN RUMINANTS OF NORTH AMERICA

    J. R. Lichtenfels;P. A. Pilitt;E. P. Hoberg

  • Post-Miocene expansion, colonization, and host switching drove speciation among extant nematodes of the archaic genus Trichinella

    D. S. Zarlenga;B. M. Rosenthal;G. La Rosa;E. Pozio

  • "Emerging" parasitic infections in arctic ungulates.

    Susan J. Kutz;Eric P. Hoberg;John Nagy;Lydden Polley

  • A phylogenetic hypothesis for species of the genus Taenia (Eucestoda : Taeniidae).

    Eric P. Hoberg;Arlene Jones;Robert L. Rausch;Keeseon S. Eom

  • Gastrointestinal Strongyles in Wild Ruminants

    Eric P. Hoberg;A. Alan Kocan;Lora G. Rickard

  • Structure, biodiversity, and historical biogeography of nematode faunas in holarctic ruminants: morphological and molecular diagnoses for Teladorsagia boreoarcticus n. sp. (Nematoda: Ostertagiinae), a dimorphic cryptic species in muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus).

    Eric P. Hoberg;Kirsten J. Monsen;Susan Kutz;Susan Kutz;Michael S. Blouin;Michael S. Blouin

  • Phylogenomic and biogeographic reconstruction of the Trichinella complex

    Pasi K. Korhonen;Edoardo Pozio;Giuseppe La Rosa;Bill C. H. Chang

  • Northern host-parasite assemblages: history and biogeography on the borderlands of episodic climate and environmental transition.

    Eric P. Hoberg;Kurt E. Galbreath;Joseph A. Cook;Susan J. Kutz

  • Climate Change Promotes the Emergence of Serious Disease Outbreaks of Filarioid Nematodes

    Sauli Laaksonen;Jyrki Pusenius;Jouko Kumpula;Ari Venäläinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan J. Kutz
Susan J. Kutz University of Calgary
Daniel R. Brooks
Daniel R. Brooks University of Toronto
Emily J. Jenkins
Emily J. Jenkins University of Saskatchewan
Walter A. Boeger
Walter A. Boeger Federal University of Paraná
Joseph A. Cook
Joseph A. Cook University of New Mexico
Dante S. Zarlenga
Dante S. Zarlenga Agricultural Research Service
Guilherme G. Verocai
Guilherme G. Verocai Texas A&M University
Vanessa O. Ezenwa
Vanessa O. Ezenwa Yale University
Voitto Haukisalmi
Voitto Haukisalmi University of Helsinki
Antti Lavikainen
Antti Lavikainen University of Helsinki

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