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. Accepted. Nature Communications.
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

Falvo C, Crowley D, Benson E, Hall MN, Schwarz B, Bohrnsen E, Ruiz-Aravena M, Hebner M, Ma W, Schountz T, Rynda-Apple A, and Plowright RK. 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.
Lagergren J, Ruiz-Aravena M, Becker DJ, Madden W, Ruytenberg L, Hoegh A, Han B, Peel AJ, Eby P, Jacobson D, and Plowright RK. 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. 2023. doi: 10.1089/hs.2023.0089.
Borremans B, Falvo CA, Crowley DE, Hoegh A, Lloyd-Smith JO, Peel AJ, Restif O, Ruiz-Aravena M, Plowright RK. Reconstructing prevalence dynamics of wildlife pathogens from pooled and individual samples. bioRxiv. 2023. BioRxiv preprint doi: 10.1101/2023.11.02.565200.
Vora NM, Hassan L, Plowright RK, Horton R, Cook S, Sizer N, Bernstein A. The Lancet–PPATS Commission on Prevention of Viral Spillover: reducing the risk of pandemics through primary prevention. The Lancet. 2023. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01064-4 .
Lunn TJ, Borremans M, Jones DN, Kessler MK, Dale AS, Yinda KC, Ruiz-Aravena M, Falvo CA, Crowley D, Lloyd-Smith JO, Munster VJ, Eby P, McCallum H, Hudson P, Restif O, McGuire LP, Smith IL, Bat One Health Group, Plowright RK, Peel AJ. Periodic shifts in viral load increase risk of spillover from bats. Preprint. 2023. BioRxiv preprint doi: 10.1101/2023.09.06.556454
Bushmaker T, Yinda CK, Morris DH, Holbrook MG, Gamble A, Adney D, Bushmaker C, van Doremalen N, Fischer RJ, Plowright RK, Lloyd-Smith JO, Munster VJ. Comparative aerosol and surface stability of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern. Emerging Infectious Diseases.2023. doi: 10.3201/eid2905.221752
Fagre AC , Islam A, Reeves WK, Kading RC , Plowright RK, Gurley ES, McKee CD. Bartonella Infection in Fruit Bats and Bat Flies, Bangladesh. Microb Ecol. 2023. doi: 10.1007/s00248-023-02293-9
Cashman M, Melesse Vergara VG, Lagergren J, Lane M, Merlet J, Atkinson M, Streich J, Bradburne C, Plowright R, Joubert W, Jacobson D. Longitudinal effects on plant species involved in agriculture and pandemic emergence undergoing changes in abiotic stress. In: PASC ’23: Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference. 2023. doi: 10.1145/3592979.3593402
Merlet J, Lagergren J, Melesse Vergara V, Cashman M, Bradburne C, Plowright R, Gurley E, Joubert W, Jacobson D. Data-driven whole-genome clustering to detect geospatial, temporal, and functional trends in SARS-CoV-2 evolution. In: PASC ’23: Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference. 2023. doi: 10.1145/3592979.3593425
Faust C, Castellanos AA, Peel AJ, Eby P, Plowright R, Han BA, Bharti N. Environmental variation across multiple spatial scales and temporal lags influences Hendra virus spillover. J Appl Ecol. 2023;00:1-11. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14415
Biggs D, Peel AJ, Astaras C, Braczkowski A, Cheung H, Choi CY, Orume RD, Cáceres-Escobar H, Phelps J, Plowright RK, et al. Governance principles for the wildlife trade to reduce spillover and pandemic risk. CAB One Health. 2023;1:1-9. doi: 10.1079/cabionehealth.2023.0013
Scherting B, Peel A, Plowright R, Hoegh A. Estimation of COVID-19 prevalence dynamics from pooled data. J Surv Stat Method. 2023;00:1-16. doi: 10.1093 /jssam/smad011
Eby P, Peel AJ, Madden W, Hudson PJ, Plowright RK. Pathogen spillover driven by rapid changes in bat ecology. Nature. 2023;000:1-5. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05506-2
Becker D, Eby P, Madden W, Peel A, Plowright RK. Ecological conditions experienced by bat reservoir hosts predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time. Ecol Lett. 2023;00:1-12. doi: 10.1111/ele.14007

2022

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

Cherne, M.D., Gentry, A.B., Nemudraia, A., Nemudryi, A., Hedges, J.F., Walk, H., Blackwell, K., Snyder, D.T., Jerome, M., Madden, W. and Hashimi, M., Sebrell, A., King, D.B., Plowright, R.K., Jutila, M.A., Wiedenheft, B., Bimczok, D. 2022. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Is Detected in the Gastrointestinal Tract of Asymptomatic Endoscopy Patients but Is Unlikely to Pose a Significant Risk to Healthcare Personnel. Gastro Hep Advances, 1(5), pp.844-852.

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.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01312-y

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 leukocytes in free-living Australian black flying foxes (Pteropus alecto). 2022. PloS ONE. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268549

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.org/10.3201/eid2807.212614

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.org/10.3201/eid2805.212338

Reaser, Jamie; Hunt, Brooklin; Ruiz-Aravena, Manuel; Tabor, Gary; Patz, Jonathan; Becker, Daniel; Locke, Harvey; Hudson, Peter; Plowright, K. Raina. Fostering landscape immunity to protect human health: A science-based rationale for shifting conservation policy paradigms. 2022. Conservation Letters. doi.org/10.1111/conl.12869

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.

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

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 on North American bat species. 2022. 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? 2022. Trends in Microbiology. doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2021.12.009

2021

D. A. Bikosa, C. Hwangb, K. A. Brileyab, A. Parkerb, E. K. Lovedaya, M. Rodriguez, T. LeFevre, I. Thorntone, J. N. Wilking, M. Dills, S. T. Walk, A. K. Adams, R. K. Plowright, A. B. Hoegh, J. R. Carter, J. Morrow, M. Taylor, D. Keil, M. W. Fields, and C. B. Chang. SLAMP: A Rapid Fluorometric RT-LAMP Assay for Sensitive and Specific Detection of SARS-CoV-2 from Human Saliva. Preprint: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.31.21254634v1

Rogers Will, Manuel Ruiz-Aravena, Dale Hansen, Wyatt Madden, Maureen Kessler, Matthew W. Fields, Matthew J Ferrari, Connie B. Chang, Jayne Morrow, Andrew Hoegh, Raina K. Plowright. High-frequency screening combined with diagnostic testing for control of SARS-CoV-2 in high-density settings: an economic evaluation of resources allocation for public health benefit. Preprint: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.04.21252949v1

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 *Equal contribution

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

Almberg, Emily; Manlove, Kezia; Cassirer, E.; Ramsey, Jennifer; Lackey, Keri; Gude, Justin; Plowright, Raina. Modeling interventions to guide management of a chronic disease in wildlife: a case study of respiratory disease in bighorn sheep. 2021. Journal of Applied Ecology. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14084

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.

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: 10.1038/s41598-021-00266-x

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. 2021 Ecology and Evolution. 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. 2021. Ecology and Evolution.

Hoegh, Andrew; Peel, Alison; Madden, Wyatt; Morris, Aaron; Ruiz Aravena, Manuel; Washburne, Alex; Plowright, Raina. Estimating Viral Prevalence with Data Integration for Adaptive Two-Phase Pooled Sampling. 2021. 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.

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 + equal contribution.

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: principles and priority actions for protected and conserved area managers. 2021. PARKS. doi:10.32942/osf.io/bmfhw

Martin, Alynn; Cassirer, Frances; Waits, Lisette; Plowright, Raina; Cross, Paul; Andrews, Kimberly. Genomic association with pathogen carriage in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis). 2021. Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1002/ece3.7159

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. 2021. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13809

2020

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

Hockings, Marc; Dudley, Nigel; Elliott, Wendy; Ferreira, Mariana Napolitano; Mackinnon, Kathy; Pasha, M. K.S.; Phillips, Adrian; Stolton, Sue; Woodley, Stephen; Appleton, Mike; Chassot, Olivier; Fitzsimons, James; Galliers, Chris; Kroner, Rachel Golden; Goodrich, John; Hopkins, Jo; Jackson, William; Jonas, Harry; Long, Barney; Mumba, Musonda; Parrish, Jeffrey; Paxton, Midori; Phua, Carol; Plowright, Raina; Rao, Madhu; Redford, Kent; Robinson, John; Rodríguez, Carlos Manuel; Sandwith, Trevor; Spenceley, Anna; Stevens, Candice; Tabor, Gary; Troëng, Sebasian; Willmore, Sean; Yang, Angela. COVID-19 and protected and conserved areas. 2020. Parks. 26. 7-24. doi:10.2305/IUCN.CH.2020.PARKS-26-1MH.en

Ricardo Rocha, Sheema Abdul Aziz, Cara E. Brook, William Douglas Carvalho, Rachael Cooper-Bohannon, Winifred F. Frick, Joe Chun-Chia Huang, Tigga Kingston, Adrià López-Baucells, Bea Maas, Fiona Mathews, Rodrigo A. Medellin, Kevin J. Olival, Alison J. Peel, Raina K. Plowright, Orly Razgour, Hugo Rebelo, Luísa Rodrigues, Stephen J Rossiter, Danilo Russo, Tanja M. Straka, Emma C. Teeling, Timothy Treuer, Christian C. Voigt, Paul 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

Peel, Alison J., 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: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 bats. 2020. PLOS Pathogens. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1008758

Botto Nuñez, G., Becker, D.J., Lawrence, R.L., Plowright R.K. Synergistic Effects of Grassland Fragmentation and Temperature on Bovine Rabies Emergence. 2020. EcoHealth. doi:10.1007/s10393-020-01486-9

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. Molecular Ecology. doi:10.1111/mec.15422

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

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. 2020. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13166

2019

Becker D., Crowley D., Washburne A., Plowright R.K. Temporal and spatial limitations in global surveillance for bat filoviruses and henipaviruses. 2019. Biology Letters 15. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2019.0423

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: 37-48. doi:10.1086/701069

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) 20190014. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0014

Becker DJ, Washburne AD+, Faust CL, Mordecai EA, Plowright RK. The problem of scale in the prediction and management of pathogen spillover. 2019. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374: 20190224. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0224

Botto Nuñez, G., D.J. Becker, R.K. Plowright. The emergence of vampire bat rabies in Uruguay within a historical context. 2019. Epidemiology and Infection 147. doi:10.1017/S0950268819000682

Plowright R.K., D. J. Becker, H. McCallum, K. Manlove. Sampling to elucidate the dynamics of infections in reservoir hosts. 2019. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Vol. 374, No. 1782. doi:10.1098/rstb.2018.0336

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 Vol. 374, No. 1782. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0021

Haase, Catherine, Nathan W. Fuller, C. Reed Hranac, David Hayman, Liam McGuire, Kaleigh J.O. Norquay, Kirk A. Silas, Craig K.R. Willis, R.K. Plowright, Sarah Olson. Incorporating evaporative water loss into bioenergetic models of hibernation to test for relative influence of host and pathogen traits on white-nose syndrome. 2019. PLoS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0222311

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) 185 to 193. doi:10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.01.013

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 1314-1323. 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 Negl Trop Dis 13(6): e0007393. 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 Vol. 374, No. 1782. doi:10.1098/rstb.2018.0342

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) 20180331. doi:1098/rstb.2018.0331

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

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

2018

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

Martin G, Becker D, Plowright RK. Environmental persistence of influenza H5N1 is driven by temperature and salinity: insights from a Bayesian meta-analysis. 2018. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.3389/fevo.2018.00131

Kessler MK, Becker DJ, Peel AJ, Justice NV, Lunn T, Crowley DE, Jones DN, Eby P, Sanchez CA, and Plowright RK. Changing resource landscapes and spillover of henipaviruses. 2018. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1111/nyas.13910

Giles JR, Eby P, Parry H, Peel AJ, Plowright RK, Westcott D, McCallum M. Environmental drivers of spatiotemporal foraging intensity in fruit bats (Pteropus poliocephalus). 2018. Scientific Reports. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-27859-3

Andrews K, Adams J, Cassirer EF, Plowright RK, Gardner C, Dwire M, Hohenlohe P, Waits L. A bioinformatic pipeline for identifying informative SNP panels for parentage assignment from RADseq data. 2018. Molecular Ecology Resources. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12910

Martin G, Yanez-Arenas C, Chen C, Plowright RK, Webb RJ, Skerratt LF. Climate change could increase the extent of areas at risk of Hendra virus spillover. 2018. EcoHealth. doi:10.1007/s10393-018-1322-9

Altizer S, Becker DJ, Epstein JH, Forbes KM, Gillespie TR, Hawley DM, Hall RJ, Martin LB, Plowright RK, Satterfield DA, Streicker DG. 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. doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0102

Becker DJ, Hall RJ, Forbes KM, Plowright RK, Altizer S. Anthropogenic resource subsidies and host–parasite dynamics in wildlife. 2018. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0086

Faust CL, McCallum HI, Bloomfield LSP, Gottdenker N, Gillespie TR, Torney CJ, Dobson AP, Plowright RK. Pathogen spillover during land conversion. 2018. Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/ele.12904

Páez DJ, Restif O, Eby P, Plowright RK. 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. doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0097

Martin G*, Yanez-Arenas C, Plowright RK, Chen C, Roberts B, Skerratt LF. Hendra Virus Spillover is a Bimodal System Driven by Climatic Factors. 2018. Ecohealth. doi:10.1007/s10393-017-1309-y

2017

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, no.3 (September 2017):267-287. doi: 10.1086/693847

Cassirer EF, Manlov, K, Almberg E, Kamath P, Cox M, Wolff P, Roug, A, Shannon J, Robinson R, Harris R, Plowright RK, Hudson P, Cross P, Dobson A, Besser T. Management of pneumonia in bighorn sheep: risk, reservoirs, and resilience. 2017. Journal of Wildlife Management. doi:10.1002/jwmg.21309

Plowright RK, Manlove KR, Besser TE, Páez DJ, Andrews KR, Matthews PE, Waits LP, Hudson PJ, Cassirer EF. Age-specific infectious period shapes dynamics of pneumonia in bighorn sheep. 2017. Ecology Letters 20:1325-1336. doi: 10.1111/ele.12829 (cover photo)

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):502-510. doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.45

Páez DJ, Giles J, McCallum H, Field H, Jordan D, Peel A, Plowright RK. Conditions affecting the timing and magnitude of Hendra virus shedding across bat populations in Australia. 2017 Epidemiology and Infection. doi:10.1017/S0950268817002138

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

Manlove KR, Cassirer EF, Plowright RK, Cross PC, Hudson PJ. Contact and contagion: Probability of transmission given contact varies with demographic state in bighorn sheep. 2017. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12664

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

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

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). doi:10.1111/avj.197

2016

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

Cassirer EF, Manlove KR, Plowright RK, Besser TE. Evidence for strain-specific immunity to pneumonia in bighorn sheep. 2016. Journal of Wildlife Management. doi:10.1002/jwmg.21172

Martin GA, Yanez-Arenas C, Roberts BJ, Chen C, Plowright RK, Webb R, Smith C, Skerratt LF. Bioclimatic suitability influences abundance patterns of Australian flying foxes and risk of Hendra virus spillover. 2016. One Health. doi:10.1016/j.onehlt.2016.07.004

Manlove K, Cassirer EF, Cross PC, Plowright RK, Hudson PJ. Disease introduction is associated with a phase transition in bighorn sheep demographics. 2016. Ecology. doi:10.1002/ecy.1520

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 (PLOS featured image and PLOS featured author live Q&A session series)

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

O’Shea TJ, Cryan PM, Hayman DTS, Plowright RK, Streicker DG. Multiple mortality events in bats: a global review. 2016. Mammal Review. doi:10.1111/mam.12064

2015

Martin G, Plowright RK, Chen C, Kault D, Selleck P, Skerratt L. Hendra virus survival does not explain spillover patterns and implicates relatively direct transmission routes from flying foxes to horses. 2015. Journal of General Virology. doi:10.1099/vir.0.000073

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”)

2014

Manlove K, Cassirer EF, Cross P, Plowright RK, Hudson P. Costly connections: Social groups shape pneumonia transmission among bighorn lambs (Ovis canadensis). 2014. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 281:20142331. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.2331

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

2013 and earlier

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

Plowright RK, Manlove KR, Cassirer EF, Cross PC, Besser TE, Hudson PJ. Use of exposure history to identify patterns of immunity to pneumonia in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis). 2013. PLOS ONE, 8:e61919. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061919

Cassirer F, Plowright RK, Manlove K, Cross PC, Dobson A, Potter K, Hudson PJ. The spatio-temporal dynamics of pneumonia in a bighorn sheep metapopulation. 2013. Journal of Animal Ecology, 82(3):518-528. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12031

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

Plowright RK, Foley P, Field HE, Dobson AP, Foley JE, Eby P, Daszak P. Urban habituation, ecological connectivity and epidemic dampening: the emergence of Hendra virus from flying foxes (Pteropus spp.). 2011. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 278(1725):3703-3712. doi: 0.1098/rspb.2011.0522 (Web of Science “Highly cited paper”)

Smith CS, Epstein JH, Breed AC, Plowright RK, Olival KJ, de Jong C, Daszak P, Field HE. Satellite telemetry and long-range bat movements. 2011. PLOS ONE, 6(2):e14696. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014696

Plowright RK, Sokolow SH, Gorman ME, Daszak P, Foley JE. Causal inference in disease ecology: investigating ecological drivers of disease emergence. 2008. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 6(8):420-429. doi:10.1890/070086

Plowright RK, Field HE, Smith C, Divljan A, Palmer C, Tabor GM, Daszak P, Foley JE. Reproduction and nutritional stress are risk factors for Hendra virus infection in little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus). 2008. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 275:861-9. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1260

Halpin K, Hyatt AD, Plowright RK, Epstein JH, Daszak P, Field HE, Wang LF, Daniels PW. Emerging viruses: Coming in on a wrinkled wing and a prayer. 2007. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 44:711-717. doi:10.1086/511078

Breed AC, Field HE, Epstein JH, Plowright RK, Daszak P. Emerging henipaviruses and flying foxes - Conservation and management perspectives. 2006. Biological Conservation, 131:211-220. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2006.04.007

Breed A, Field H, Plowright RK. Volant viruses: a concern to bats, humans and other animals. 2005. Microbiology Australia, 26:59-62.

Daszak P, Tabor GM, Kilpatrick AM, Epstein J, Plowright RK. Conservation Medicine and a New Agenda for Emerging Diseases. 2004. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1026:1-11. doi:10.1196/annals.1307.001

Plowright RK. Crevasse fall in the Antarctic: a patient’s perspective. 2000. Medical Journal of Australia, 173:576-578.

Book chapters, Book Reviews, and Non-Peer Reviewed

Manlove K, Almberg ES, Kamath PL, Plowright RK, Besser TE, Hudson PJ. Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae in bighorn sheep. 2019 Wildlife Disease Ecology: Linking Theory to Data and Application. Ed.s: Wilson K, Fenton A, Tompkins D.

Plowright RK, Cross PC, Tabor GM, Almberg E, Bienen L, Hudson PJ. Climate-change and disease dynamics. 2012. Conservation Medicine: Applied Cases of Ecological Health, Oxford University. Ed.s: Auguirre A, Daszak P, Ostfeld S.

Gorman ME, Jenkins L, Plowright RK. Human interactions and sustainability. 2012. Sustainability: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives. Bentham Open E-books. Ed.s: Cabezas H, Diwekar U.

Breed AC, Plowright RK, Hayman DTS, Knobel DL, Molenaar FM, Gardner-Roberts D, Cleaveland S, Haydon DT, Kock RA, Sainsbury AW, Delahay RJ. Disease management in endangered mammals. 2009. Management of disease in wild mammals. Springer, Tokyo. Ed.s: Delahay RJ, Smith GC, Hutchings MR.

Plowright RK. Disease and ecology: crossroads in primate evolution. 2006. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 21:666. (book review)

Daszak P, Plowright RK, Epstein JH, Pulliam J, Abdul Rahman S, Field HE, Smith CS, Olival KJ, Luby S, Halpin K, Hyatt AD, the Henipavirus Ecology Research Group (HERG). The emergence of Nipah and Hendra virus: pathogen dynamics across a wildlife-livestock-human continuum. 2006. Disease Ecology: Community structure and pathogen dynamics, Oxford University Press. Ed.s: Collinge S, Ray C.

Plowright RK. Habitat loss and the emergence of infectious diseases in flying-foxes. 2007. The Nature of Northern Australia: natural values, ecological processes and future prospects, Australian National University Press, Canberra. Ed.s: Woinarski J, Mackey B, Nix H, Trail B.

Group Authorship

The Henipavirus Ecology Collaborative Research Group (HERG)

Rahman SA, Hassan L, Epstein JH, Mamat ZC, Yatim AM, Hassan SS, Field HE, Hughes T, Westrum J, Naim MS, Suri AS, Jamaluddin AA, Daszak P, HERG. Risk Factors for Nipah virus infection among pteropid bats, Peninsular Malaysia. 2013. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 19:51-60. doi:10.3201/eid1901.120221

Pulliam JR, Epstein JH, Dushoff J, Rahman SA, Bunning M, Jamaluddin AA, Hyatt AD, Field HE, Dobson AP, Daszak P, HERG. Agricultural intensification, priming for persistence and the emergence of Nipah virus: a lethal bat-borne zoonosis. 2012. J R Soc Interface, 9:89-101. doi:10.1098/rsif.2011.0223

Halpin K, Hyatt AD, Fogarty R, Middleton D, Bingham J, Epstein JH, Rahman SA, Hughes T, Smith C, Field HE, Daszak P, HERG. Pteropid bats are confirmed as the reservoir hosts of henipaviruses: a comprehensive experimental study of virus transmission. 2011. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 85:946-951. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0567