School of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 210023 Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2023 Dec;38(12):1125-1128. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.08.011. Epub 2023 Sep 6.
Understanding pathogen transmission and infection patterns at multiple biological scales is a central issue in disease ecology and evolution. Here, we suggest that functional traits of host species readily affect infection patterns of species, communities, and landscapes, and thus serve as a linkage for multilevel studies of infectious disease.
在多个生物学尺度上理解病原体传播和感染模式是疾病生态学和进化的核心问题。在这里,我们认为宿主物种的功能特征会显著影响物种、群落和景观的感染模式,因此可以作为传染病多层次研究的纽带。