Peter Hudson

Former Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Willaman Professor of Biology

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Bio

Population dynamics of infectious diseases in wildlife and the dynamics of parasite community structure.

Publication Tags

Parasites Infection Tanzania Sheep Pneumonia Ovis Canadensis Trypanosomiasis Ecology Grassland Infectious Disease Wildlife Parasite Tsetse Flies Infectious Diseases Ecosystem Demographic Statistics Effect Steppes Testosterone Phase Transition Seasonal Variation Biodiversity Steppe Glossina Tsetse Fly

Most Recent Papers

Estimating distemper virus dynamics among wolves and grizzly bears using serology and Bayesian state-space models

Paul C. Cross, Frank T. van Manen, Mafalda Viana, Emily S. Almberg, Daniel Bachen, Ellen E. Brandell, Mark A. Haroldson, Peter J. Hudson, Daniel R. Stahler, Douglas W. Smith, 2018, Ecology and Evolution

Pneumonia in bighorn sheep

E. Frances Cassirer, Kezia R. Manlove, Emily S. Almberg, Pauline L. Kamath, Mike Cox, Peregrine Wolff, Annette Roug, Justin Shannon, Rusty Robinson, Richard B. Harris, Ben J. Gonzales, Raina K. Plowright, Peter J. Hudson, Paul C. Cross, Andrew Dobson, Thomas E. Besser, 2018, Journal of Wildlife Management on p. 32-45

Patterns of tsetse abundance and trypanosome infection rates among habitats of surveyed villages in Maasai steppe of northern Tanzania

Anibariki Ngonyoka, Paul S. Gwakisa, Anna B. Estes, Linda P. Salekwa, Happiness J. Nnko, Peter J. Hudson, Isabella M. Cattadori, 2017, Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Contact and contagion

Kezia R. Manlove, E. Frances Cassirer, Raina K. Plowright, Paul C. Cross, Peter J. Hudson, 2017, Journal of Animal Ecology on p. 908-920

Seasonal variation of tsetse fly species abundance and prevalence of trypanosomes in the Maasai Steppe, Tanzania

Happiness J. Nnko, Anibariki Ngonyoka, Linda Salekwa, Anna B. Estes, Peter J. Hudson, Paul S. Gwakisa, Isabella M. Cattadori, 2017, Journal of Vector Ecology on p. 24-33

Variation of tsetse fly abundance in relation to habitat and host presence in the Maasai Steppe, Tanzania

Anibariki Ngonyoka, Paul S. Gwakisa, Anna B. Estes, Happiness J. Nnko, Peter J. Hudson, Isabella M. Cattadori, 2017, Journal of Vector Ecology on p. 34-43

Unraveling the disease consequences and mechanisms of modular structure in animal social networks

Pratha Sah, Stephan T. Leu, Paul C. Cross, Peter J. Hudson, Shweta Bansal, 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 4165-4170

Breaking beta

Hamish McCallum, Andy Fenton, Peter J. Hudson, Brian Lee, Beth Levick, Rachel Norman, Sarah E. Perkins, Mark Viney, Anthony J. Wilson, Joanne Lello, 2017, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Which Parasites Should We be Most Concerned About in Wildlife Translocations?

Bruce A. Rideout, Anthony W. Sainsbury, Peter J. Hudson, 2017, EcoHealth on p. 42-46

Disease introduction is associated with a phase transition in bighorn sheep demographics

Kezia Manlove, E. Frances Cassirer, Paul C. Cross, Raina K. Plowright, Peter J. Hudson, 2016, Ecology on p. 2593-2602

Recent High-Impact Papers

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease?

Chelsea L. Wood, Kevin D. Lafferty, Giulio DeLeo, Hillary S. Young, Peter J. Hudson, Armand M. Kuris, 2014, Ecology on p. 817-832

Comparison of social networks derived from ecological data

Sarah E. Perkins, Francesca Cagnacci, Anna Stradiotto, Daniele Arnoldi, Peter J. Hudson, 2009, Journal of Animal Ecology on p. 1015-1022

Parasites, info-disruption, and the ecology of fear

Jason R. Rohr, Autumn Swan, Thomas R. Raffel, Peter J. Hudson, 2009, Oecologia on p. 447-454

Does elevated testosterone result in increased exposure and transmission of parasites?

Daniel A. Grear, Sarah E. Perkins, Peter J. Hudson, 2009, Ecology Letters on p. 528-537

Evolutionary History and Attenuation of Myxoma Virus on Two Continents

Peter J. Kerr, Elodie Ghedin, Jay V. DePasse, Adam Fitch, Isabella M. Cattadori, Peter J. Hudson, David C. Tscharke, Andrew F. Read, Edward C. Holmes, 2012, PLoS Pathogens

The effect of vaccination on the evolution and population dynamics of Avian Paramyxovirus-1

Yee Ling Chong, Abinash Padhi, Peter J. Hudson, Mary Poss, 2010, PLoS Pathogens on p. 1-11

Climate change and infectious diseases

Xavier Rodó, Mercedes Pascual, Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes, Alexander Gershunov, Dáithí A. Stone, Filippo Giorgi, Peter J. Hudson, James Kinter, Miquel Àngel Rodríguez-Arias, Nils Ch Stenseth, David Alonso, Javier García-Serrano, Andrew P. Dobson, 2013, Climatic Change on p. 625-640

Parasite invasion following host reintroduction

Emily S. Almberg, Paul C. Cross, Andrew P. Dobson, Douglas W. Smith, Peter J. Hudson, 2012, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences on p. 2840-2851

Generating super-shedders

Sandra Lass, Peter J. Hudson, Juilee Thakar, Jasmina Saric, Eric Harvill, Réka Albert, Sarah E. Perkins, 2013, Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Spatio-temporal dynamics of pneumonia in bighorn sheep

E. Frances Cassirer, Raina K. Plowright, Kezia R. Manlove, Paul C. Cross, Andrew P. Dobson, Kathleen A. Potter, Peter J. Hudson, 2013, Journal of Animal Ecology on p. 518-528