S. Guth

Reproduction, seasonal morphology, and juvenile growth in three Malagasy fruit bats

This paper documents seasonal reproductive patterns, morphological traits, and juvenile growth in three Malagasy fruit bat species to inform conservation and public health efforts.

Reservoir host immunology and life history shape virulence evolution in zoonotic viruses

This study develops a modeling framework to predict virulence of zoonotic viruses based on reservoir host immunology and life history traits, successfully capturing human mortality rates from bat-borne viruses.

Bats host the most virulent--but not the most dangerous--zoonotic viruses

The paper analyzes zoonotic virus traits to show bats host the most virulent viruses but not the most dangerous, as human death burden depends on epidemiological dynamics, not reservoir traits.

Optimizing predictive models to prioritize viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs

This study compares and validates predictive models to prioritize sampling of bat hosts for betacoronaviruses, finding ecological trait-based models outperform network methods.

Ecological processes underlying the emergence of novel enzootic cycles--arboviruses in the neotropics as a case study

This paper examines ecological processes that enable zoonotic pathogens to establish novel enzootic cycles, using arboviruses in the neotropics as a case study.