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  1. Widespread occurrence of bovine-like and new viruses in wild deer across the United States

    Article • July 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  2. Age-dependent effects of infection on survival of a wild rodent reservoir host

    Article • March 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  3. Food Supplementation Reduces Nematode Super-Shedding in a Wild Mammal

    Article • January 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  4. Food Subsidy Effects on Host Foraging Behavior Shape Host–Macroparasite Infection Dynamics

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, January 2026, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  5. Landscape-scale analysis of raccoon rabies surveillance reveals different drivers of disease dynamics across latitude

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, September 2025, PLOS

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  6. A Novel Nobecovirus in an Epomophorus wahlbergi Bat from Nairobi, Kenya

    Article • Viruses, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  7. Location, Age, and Antibodies Predict Avian Influenza Virus Shedding in Ring-Billed and Franklin’s Gulls in Minnesota

    Article • Animals, September 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  8. Gaps in modelling animal migration with evolutionary game theory: infection can favour the loss of migration

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2023, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  9. The illusion of personal health decisions for infectious disease management: disease spread in social contact networks

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, March 2023, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  10. The illusion of personal health decisions for infectious disease management: disease spread in social contact networks

    Article • January 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  11. Effects of food supplementation and helminth removal on space use and spatial overlap in wild rodent populations

    Article • December 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  12. Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of multi-strain RNA viruses

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Meggan E Craft, Dr Dennis Makau

  13. Paradoxes and synergies: Optimizing management of a deadly virus in an endangered carnivore

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, April 2022, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  14. Do Some Super-Spreaders Spread Better? Effects of individual heterogeneity in epidemiological traits

    Article • April 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  15. How to study parasites and host migration: a roadmap for empiricists

    Article • Biological Reviews, January 2022, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  16. Paradoxes and synergies: optimizing management of a deadly virus in an endangered carnivore

    Article • January 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  17. Using host traits to predict reservoir host species of rabies virus

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, December 2020, PLOS

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  18. A mechanistic, stigmergy model of territory formation in solitary animals: Territorial behavior can dampen disease prevalence but increase persistence

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, June 2020, PLOS

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  19. Trade‐offs with telemetry‐derived contact networks for infectious disease studies in wildlife

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, February 2020, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  20. Microbial associations and spatial proximity predict North American moose (Alces alces) gastrointestinal community composition

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  21. A mechanistic, stigmergy model of territory formation in asocial animals: Territorial behavior can dampen disease prevalence but increase persistence

    Article • October 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  22. Feline immunodeficiency virus in puma: Estimation of force of infection reveals insights into transmission

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, September 2019, Wiley

    sue vandewoude, Dr Meggan E Craft

  23. How to make more from exposure data? An integrated machine learning pipeline to predict pathogen exposure

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, August 2019, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  24. Host migration strategy is shaped by forms of parasite transmission and infection cost

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, July 2019, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  25. Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production

    Article • Nature Sustainability, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Meggan E Craft, Chris Barrett

  26. Challenges and Opportunities Developing Mathematical Models of Shared Pathogens of Domestic and Wild Animals

    Article • Veterinary Sciences, October 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  27. Disease outbreak thresholds emerge from interactions between movement behavior, landscape structure, and epidemiology

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  28. Urban landscapes can change virus gene flow and evolution in a fragmentation-sensitive carnivore

    Article • Molecular Ecology, November 2017, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  29. Dynamic, spatial models of parasite transmission in wildlife: Their structure, applications and remaining challenges

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  30. Linking social and spatial networks to viral community phylogenetics reveals subtype-specific transmission dynamics in African lions

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  31. Interactions between domestic and wild carnivores around the greater Serengeti ecosystem

    Article • Animal Conservation, October 2016, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  32. Network analysis of cattle movements in Uruguay: Quantifying heterogeneity for risk-based disease surveillance and control

    Article • Preventive Veterinary Medicine, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  33. Infectious disease transmission and contact networks in wildlife and livestock

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  34. From network analysis to risk analysis—An approach to risk-based surveillance for bovine tuberculosis in Minnesota, US

    Article • Preventive Veterinary Medicine, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  35. Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) in Another Big Cat: Should CDV Be Renamed Carnivore Distemper Virus?

    Article • mBio, September 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  36. Asynchronous food-web pathways could buffer the response of Serengeti predators to El Niño Southern Oscillation

    Article • Ecology, May 2013, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  37. Epidemiological effects of group size variation in social species

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, April 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  38. Estimating the Probability of a Major Outbreak from the Timing of Early Cases: An Indeterminate Problem?

    Article • PLOS One, March 2013, PLOS

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  39. FIV diversity: FIVPle subtype composition may influence disease outcome in African lions

    Article • Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, October 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  40. Long‐term trends in carnivore abundance using distance sampling in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, July 2011, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  41. Network Models: An Underutilized Tool in Wildlife Epidemiology?

    Article • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, January 2011, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  42. Disease transmission in territorial populations: the small-world network of Serengeti lions

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, October 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  43. Does size matter? An investigation of habitat use across a carnivore assemblage in the Serengeti, Tanzania

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, July 2010, Wiley

    Dr Nathalie Pettorelli, Dr Meggan E Craft

  44. Distinguishing epidemic waves from disease spillover in a wildlife population

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  45. Dynamics of a multihost pathogen in a carnivore community

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, November 2008, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft

  46. Exploring reservoir dynamics: a case study of rabies in the Serengeti ecosystem

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, July 2008, Wiley

    Andrew Dobson, Dr Meggan E Craft

  47. Capture and rapid handling of jackals (Canis mesomelas and Canis adustus) without chemical immobilization

    Article • African Journal of Ecology, June 2008, Wiley

    Dr Meggan E Craft