{"id":184,"date":"2016-11-05T13:21:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T13:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/?p=184"},"modified":"2016-11-05T13:21:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T13:21:35","slug":"predicting-host-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/2016\/11\/05\/predicting-host-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting host species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unsampled host species may associate with parasites of interest, but it can be challenging to predict with which species a given parasite will associate.\u00a0We tested the predictability of a parasite&#8217;s host range (the set of host species it can infect) using a large database of helminth parasites of fish and boosted regression trees (<a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/dismo\/vignettes\/brt.pdf\">recommended R resource<\/a>). <a href=\"https:\/\/taddallas.github.io\/\">Tad Dallas<\/a> led the research, which was recently published in <a href=\"https:\/\/taddallas.github.io\/papers\/Dallas2016Helminth.pdf\">Parasitology<\/a>. While host traits and environmental variables were predictive, the single best class of predictors was the parasite community itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unsampled host species may associate with parasites of interest, but it can be challenging to predict with which species a given parasite will associate.\u00a0We tested the predictability of a parasite&#8217;s host range (the set of host species it can infect) using a large database of helminth parasites of fish and boosted regression trees (recommended R &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/2016\/11\/05\/predicting-host-species\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Predicting host species<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}