One year into the global COVID-19 pandemic, the focus of attention has shifted to the
emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs). After nearly a year of the …

Influenza (flu) is a common infectious disease, but it is unusual in that the primary timescales
for disease dynamics (epidemics) and viral evolution (new variants) are roughly the same. …

Genetic predisposition to obesity presents a paradox: how do genetic variants with a
detrimental impact on human health persist through evolutionary time? Numerous hypotheses, …

We provide two methods for monitoring reinfection trends in routine surveillance data to identify
signatures of changes in reinfection risk and apply these approaches to data from South …

Background Rabies is a notoriously underreported and neglected disease of low-income
countries. This study aims to estimate the public health and economic burden of rabies …

One of the values of biodiversity is that it may provide ‘biological insurance’ for services
currently rendered by domesticated species or technology. We used crop pollination as a model …

… Every species, j, is defined by a unique value of x j , and the spectrum of all species (x 1 , x
2 … where Ċ j denotes the rate of change in the biomass of the jth species (C j ), and i j is the …

… group i susceptibles and group j infectives which lead to infection. Since the proportion of
group … Although our criterion (11) gives some insight into the causes of backwards …

Three metrics of species diversity – species richness, the Shannon index and the Simpson
index – are still widely used in ecology, despite decades of valid critiques leveled against …

Influenza incidence exhibits strong seasonal fluctuations in temperate regions throughout
the world, concentrating the mortality and morbidity burden of the disease into a few months …