2024
Dolfi, A.C., K. Kausrud, K. Rysava, C. Champagne, Y.-H. Huang, Z.R. Barandongo and W.C. Turner. In press. Season of death, pathogen persistence and wildlife behavior alter number of anthrax secondary infections from environmental reservoirs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2023
Huang, Y.-H., N. Owen-Smith, M.D. Henley, P.L. Kamath, J.W. Kilian, S.O. Ochai, H. van Heerden, J.K.E. Mfune, W.M. Getz and W.C. Turner. 2023. Variation in herbivore space use: comparing two savanna ecosystems with different anthrax outbreak patterns in southern Africa. Movement Ecology. 11:46. (https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-023-00385-2)
Barandongo, Z.R., A. Dolfi, S.A. Bruce, K. Rysava, Y.-H. Huang, H. Joel, A. Hassim, P.L. Kamath, H. van Heerden and W.C. Turner. 2023. The persistence of time: the lifespan of Bacillus anthracis spores in environmental reservoirs. Research in Microbiology 104029. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resmic.2023.104029)
2022
Huang, Y.-H., K. Kausrud, A. Hassim, S.O. Ochai, O.L. van Schalkwyk, E.H. Dekker, B. Alexander, C.C. Cloete, J.W. Kilian, J.K.E. Mfune, P.L. Kamath, H. van Heerden and W.C. Turner. 2022. Environmental drivers of biseasonal anthrax outbreak dynamics in two multihost savanna systems. Ecological Monographs e1526. (https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1526).
Ochai, S.O., J. Crafford, A. Hassim, C. Byaruhanga, Y.-H. Huang, A. Hartmann, O.L. van Schalkwyk, E.H. Dekker, P.L. Kamath, W.C. Turner and H. van Heerden. 2022. Immunological evidence of host variation in exposure and resistance to anthrax in Kruger and Etosha National Parks. Frontiers in Immunology 13:814031. (https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.814031)
2021
Bruce, S.A., Y.-H. Huang, P.L. Kamath, H. van Heerden and W.C. Turner. 2021. The roles of antimicrobial resistance, phage diversity, isolation source, and selection in shaping the genomic architecture of Bacillus anthracis. Microbial Genomics 7:000616. (https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000616)
Huang, Y.-H., H. Joel, M. Küsters, Z.R. Barandongo, C.C. Cloete, A. Hartmann, P.L. Kamath, J.W. Kilian, J.K.E. Mfune, G. Shatumbu, R. Zidon, W.M. Getz and W.C. Turner. 2021. Disease or drought: environmental fluctuations release zebra from a potential pathogen-triggered ecological trap. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288:20210582. (http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0582)
Turner, W.C., P.L. Kamath, H. van Heerden, Y.-H. Huang, Z.R. Barandongo, S.A. Bruce and K. Kausrud. 2021. The roles of environmental variation and parasite survival in virulence-transmission relationships. Royal Society Open Science 8:210088. (http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210088)
Chen, C.-C., A.-M. Chang, M.-S. Tsai, Y.-H. Huang, K.J.-C. Pei, Y.-C. Li. 2021. Association between stress and bilateral symmetrical alopecia in free-ranging Formosan macaques in Mt. Longevity, Taiwan. Scientific Reports 11:11189. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90725-2)
2020
Starkloff, N.C., J.J. Kirchman, A.W. Jones, B.M. Winger, Y.-H. Huang, P.C. Pulgarin-R and W.C. Turner. 2020. Drivers of community turnover differ between avian haemoparasite genera along a North American latitudinal gradient. Ecology and Evolution 10(12):5402-5415. (https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6283)
Manuscripts in progress
Huang, Y.-H. and V.O. Ezenwa. Heterogeneity in parasite-mediated anorexia can contribute to trophic cascades. (submitted.)
Huang, Y.-H., J.T. Hogg, W. Rogers and V.O. Ezenwa. Social connectivity enhances ungulate survival over a fatal outbreak. (In preparation.)
