{"id":71,"date":"2015-05-13T18:03:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T18:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/?p=71"},"modified":"2015-10-29T17:30:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T17:30:04","slug":"how-does-vector-species-richness-increase-parasite-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/2015\/05\/13\/how-does-vector-species-richness-increase-parasite-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"(How) does vector species richness increase parasite transmission?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-40 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/midges-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"midges\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/midges-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/midges.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This is a question we got interested in through hemorrhagic disease, a vector-borne viral disease affecting white-tailed deer. <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=9879478&amp;fileId=S0031182015000578\">We observed<\/a> that disease reporting rate was positively associated with vector species richness (VSR: where species of midge belong to the large genus <em>Culicoides<\/em>). We thought this could be because high VSR:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>is associated\u00a0with high vector abundance<\/li>\n<li>increases the likelihood that the vector community contains a highly competent subset<\/li>\n<li>is associated with long seasonal transmission if vector species in a community exhibit distinct phenologies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We found no support for 1 and 2 in our system, but strong support for 3. This means that VSR can manifest as <em>functional diversity<\/em>, facilitating parasite transmission. It remains to be seen if this operates more widely in vector borne diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question we got interested in through hemorrhagic disease, a vector-borne viral disease affecting white-tailed deer. We observed that disease reporting rate was positively associated with vector species richness (VSR: where species of midge belong to the large genus Culicoides). We thought this could be because high VSR: is associated\u00a0with high vector abundance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/2015\/05\/13\/how-does-vector-species-richness-increase-parasite-transmission\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(How) does vector species richness increase parasite transmission?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","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\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}