Raina K. Plowright

The paper uses explainable AI to predict food shortages in Eastern Australian flying foxes, identifying environmental and bat-level features that predict nutritional stress with high accuracy.

This study models how diet affects viral shedding and spillover risk in Jamaican fruit bats infected with H18N11, finding diet-dependent interactions between citrulline and TNF influence shedding and transmission.

The paper investigates Borrelia infections in black flying foxes, finding two novel haplotypes distinct from known zoonotic clades.

The paper develops a multi-scale statistical model to predict Hendra virus shedding in black flying foxes by integrating environmental and host condition factors across spatial and temporal scales.

This study shows Jamaican fruit bats can support EBOV replication and shedding but not MARV, due to differences in viral entry and IFN-I signaling suppression.

The study shows diet affects viral shedding in Jamaican fruit bats, with suboptimal-sugar diets leading to higher viral RNA shedding than suboptimal-fat diets.

This paper introduces a Bayesian multilevel model to estimate prevalence dynamics from pooled and individual wildlife samples, accounting for dilution effects and false negatives.

This study quantifies GIT passage times in volant vertebrates, finding faster transit times in bats and birds compared to non-volant species, with implications for gut microbiome convergence.

A novel Hendra virus variant was identified in Australian horses, showing 83% nucleotide identity to the prototype strain and suggesting potential effectiveness of existing antibodies and vaccines.

This study evaluates under-roost sampling methods for estimating viral prevalence in bat populations and recommends a stratified random design to minimize bias.