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Vanessa O. Ezenwa

Vanessa O. Ezenwa

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Ecology and Evolution

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43
Citations
9396
World Ranking
5243
National Ranking
1788

Overview

Vanessa O. Ezenwa is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and specializes primarily in Environmental Science and Medicine. Their research spans several interconnected disciplines, with a strong focus on Ecology and Infectious Diseases. Additional areas within their scope include Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology, and broader Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

Their work centers on a range of topics, notably:

  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Helminth Infection and Control
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health
  • Gut Microbiota and Health
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology

Vanessa O. Ezenwa has contributed to numerous scholarly articles, with a selection of recent papers including:

  • Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats, 2020, mBio
  • In Vivo Competitions between Fibrobacter succinogenes, Ruminococcus flavefaciens, and Ruminoccus albus in a Gnotobiotic Sheep Model Revealed by Multi-Omic Analyses, 2021, Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
  • Rainfall as a driver of seasonality in parasitism, 2020, International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife
  • Complex Tissue Regeneration in Mammals Is Associated With Reduced Inflammatory Cytokines and an Influx of T Cells, 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Parasitism and host social behaviour: a meta-analysis of insights derived from social network analysis, 2021, Animal Behaviour

The scientist's frequent collaborators include:

  • Anna E. Jolles
  • Se Jin Song
  • Rob Knight
  • Sarah A. Budischak
  • David J. Civitello

Their publications have appeared regularly in various prestigious venues, such as:

  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Best Publications

  • Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies

    Sonia Altizer;Charles L. Nunn;Peter H. Thrall;John L. Gittleman

  • Animal Behavior and the Microbiome

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Nicole M. Gerardo;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye;Mónica Medina

  • Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats

    Se Jin Song;Jon G. Sanders;Frédéric Delsuc;Jessica Metcalf

  • Avian diversity and West Nile virus: testing associations between biodiversity and infectious disease risk

    Vanessa O Ezenwa;Marvin S Godsey;Raymond J King;Stephen C Guptill

  • Biodiversity Loss Affects Global Disease Ecology

    Montira J. Pongsiri;Joe Roman;Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Tony L. Goldberg

  • Effects of vulture declines on facultative scavengers and potential implications for mammalian disease transmission.

    D. L. Ogada;M. E. Torchin;M. F. Kinnaird;V. O. Ezenwa

  • Infecting epidemiology with genetics: a new frontier in disease ecology

    Elizabeth A. Archie;Elizabeth A. Archie;Gordon Luikart;Vanessa O. Ezenwa

  • Interactions between macroparasites and microparasites drive infection patterns in free-ranging African buffalo.

    Anna E. Jolles;Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Rampal S. Etienne;Wendy C. Turner

  • Hidden Consequences of Living in a Wormy World: Nematode‐Induced Immune Suppression Facilitates Tuberculosis Invasion in African Buffalo

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Rampal S. Etienne;Gordon Luikart;Gordon Luikart;Albano Beja-Pereira

  • Host social behavior and parasitic infection: a multifactorial approach

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa

  • Heterogeneity in pathogen transmission: mechanisms and methodology

    Kimberly L. VanderWaal;Vanessa O. Ezenwa

  • Host behaviour-parasite feedback: an essential link between animal behaviour and disease ecology.

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Elizabeth A. Archie;Meggan E. Craft;Dana M. Hawley

  • From Host Immunity to Pathogen Invasion: The Effects of Helminth Coinfection on the Dynamics of Microparasites

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Anna E. Jolles

  • Opposite effects of anthelmintic treatment on microbial infection at individual versus population scales

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Anna E. Jolles

  • Comparative analysis of ear-hole closure identifies epimorphic regeneration as a discrete trait in mammals

    Thomas R. Gawriluk;Jennifer Simkin;Katherine L. Thompson;Shishir K. Biswas

  • The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts

    Patrick R. Stephens;Sonia Altizer;Katherine F. Smith;A. Alonso Aguirre

  • Habitat overlap and gastrointestinal parasitism in sympatric African bovids.

    V. O. Ezenwa

  • Does animal behavior underlie covariation between hosts' exposure to infectious agents and susceptibility to infection? Implications for disease dynamics.

    Dana M. Hawley;Rampal S. Etienne;Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Anna E. Jolles

  • Host traits and parasite species richness in even and odd-toed hoofed mammals, Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Samantha A. Price;Sonia Altizer;Nicholas D. Vitone

  • Microbes and animal olfactory communication: Where do we go from here?

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Allison E. Williams

  • Interactions among host diet, nutritional status and gastrointestinal parasite infection in wild bovids

    Vanessa O Ezenwa

  • Selective defecation and selective foraging: Antiparasite behavior in wild ungulates?

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa

  • Group living and pathogen infection revisited

    Vanessa O Ezenwa;Ria R Ghai;Alexa F McKay;Allison E Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon Luikart
Gordon Luikart University of Montana
Sonia Altizer
Sonia Altizer University of Georgia
Elizabeth A. Archie
Elizabeth A. Archie University of Notre Dame
Eric P. Hoberg
Eric P. Hoberg United States Department of Agriculture
Charles L. Nunn
Charles L. Nunn Duke University
Rampal S. Etienne
Rampal S. Etienne University of Groningen
Paul C. Cross
Paul C. Cross United States Geological Survey
John M. Drake
John M. Drake University of Georgia
John L. Gittleman
John L. Gittleman University of Georgia
Jean-François Guégan
Jean-François Guégan University of Montpellier

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