Peter Hudson

Peter Hudson

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

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Most Recent Papers

Complex immune responses and molecular reactions to pathogens and disease in a desert reptile (Gopherus agassizii)

K. Kristina Drake, Christina M. Aiello, Lizabeth Bowen, Rebecca L. Lewison, Todd C. Esque, Kenneth E. Nussear, Shannon C. Waters, Peter John Hudson, 2019, Ecology and Evolution on p. 2516-2534

The slow dynamics of mycoplasma infections in a tortoise host reveal heterogeneity pertinent to pathogen transmission and monitoring

C. M. Aiello, T. C. Esque, K. E. Nussear, Patrick Geoffrey Emblidge, Peter John Hudson, 2019, Epidemiology and Infection

The ecology of movement and behaviour

Kezia Manlove, Christina Aiello, Pratha Sah, Bree Cummins, Peter John Hudson, Paul C. Cross, 2018, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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 John Hudson, Daniel R. Stahler, Douglas W. Smith, 2018, Ecology and Evolution on p. 8726-8735

Associating sex-biased and seasonal behaviour with contact patterns and transmission risk in Gopherus agassizii

C. M. Aiello, T. C. Esque, K. E. Nussear, Patrick Geoffrey Emblidge, Peter John Hudson, 2018, Behaviour on p. 585-619

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 John 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 Bond Estes, Linda P. Salekwa, Happiness J. Nnko, Peter John Hudson, Isabella Cattadori, 2017, Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Contact and contagion

Kezia R. Manlove, E. Frances Cassirer, Raina K. Plowright, Paul C. Cross, Peter John 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 Bond Estes, Peter John Hudson, Paul S. Gwakisa, Isabella 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 Bond Estes, Happiness J. Nnko, Peter John Hudson, Isabella Cattadori, 2017, Journal of Vector Ecology on p. 34-43

Recent High-Impact Papers

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease?

Chelsea L. Wood, Kevin D. Lafferty, Giulio DeLeo, Hillary S. Young, Peter John 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 John 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 John 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 John 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 Cattadori, Peter John Hudson, David C. Tscharke, Andrew Fraser 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 John 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 John 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

Generating super-shedders

Sandra Lass, Peter John Hudson, Juilee Thakar, Jasmina Saric, Eric Thomas Harvill, Reka Z. Albert, Sarah E. Perkins, 2013, Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Parasite invasion following host reintroduction

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

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 John Hudson, 2013, Journal of Animal Ecology on p. 518-528