Dr Nicholas Clark
Lecturer Animal Genetics and Genomics
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Fecchio, Alan, Bell, Jeffrey A., Bosholn, Mariane, Vaughan, Jefferson A., Tkach, Vasyl V., Lutz, Holly L., Cueto, Victor R., Gorosito, Cristian A., González‐Acuña, Daniel, Stromlund, Chad, Kvasager, Danielle, Comiche, Kiba J. M., Kirchgatter, Karin, Pinho, João B., Berv, Jacob, Anciães, Marina, Fontana, Carla S., Zyskowski, Kristof, Sampaio, Sidnei, Dispoto, Janice H., Galen, Spencer C., Weckstein, Jason D. and Clark, Nicholas J. (2019) An inverse latitudinal gradient in infection probability and phylogenetic diversity for Leucocytozoon blood parasites in New World birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, . doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13117
Clark, Nicholas J., Umulisa, Irenee, Ruberanziza, Eugene, Owada, Kei, Colley, Daniel G., Ortu, Giuseppina, Campbell, Carl H., Ruzindana, Emmanuel, Lancaster, Warren, Mbonigaba, Jean Bosco, Mbituyumuremyi, Aimable, Fenwick, Alan, Soares Magalhaes, Ricardo J. and Turate, Innocent (2019) Mapping Schistosoma mansoni endemicity in Rwanda: a critical assessment of geographical disparities arising from circulating cathodic antigen versus Kato-Katz diagnostics. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 13 9: e0007723. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0007723
Peel, Alison J., Wells, Konstans, Giles, John, Boyd, Victoria, Burroughs, Amy, Edson, Daniel, Crameri, Gary, Baker, Michelle L., Field, Hume, Wang, Lin-Fa, McCallum, Hamish, Plowright, Raina K. and Clark, Nicholas (2019) Synchronous shedding of multiple bat paramyxoviruses coincides with peak periods of Hendra virus spillover. Emerging Microbes and Infections, 8 1: 1314-1323. doi:10.1080/22221751.2019.1661217
Proboste, Tatiana, Corvalan, Paloma, Clark, Nicholas, Beyer, Hawthorne L., Goldizen, Anne W. and Seddon, Jennifer M. (2019) Commensal bacterial sharing does not predict host social associations in kangaroos. Journal of Animal Ecology, . doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13064
Ruberanziza, Eugene, Owada, Kei, Clark, Nicholas J., Umulisa, Irenee, Ortu, Giuseppina, Lancaster, Warren, Munyaneza, Tharcisse, Mbituyumuremyi, Aimable, Bayisenge, Ursin, Fenwick, Alan and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2019) Mapping soil-transmitted helminth parasite infection in Rwanda: estimating endemicity and identifying at-risk populations. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 4 2: 93. doi:10.3390/tropicalmed4020093
Lawrence, Andrea L., Webb, Cameron E., Clark, Nicholas J., Halajian, Ali, Mihalca, Andrei D., Miret, Jorge, D'Amico, Gianluca, Brown, Graeme, Kumsa, Bersissa, Modrý, David and Šlapeta, Jan (2019) Out-of-Africa, human-mediated dispersal of the common cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis: the hitchhiker’s guide to world domination. International Journal for Parasitology, 49 5: 321-336. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2019.01.001
Wells, Konstans and Clark, Nicholas J. (2019) Host specificity in variable environments. Trends in Parasitology, 35 6: 452-465. doi:10.1016/j.pt.2019.04.001
Fecchio, Alan, Wells, Konstans, Bell, Jeffrey A., Tkach, Vasyl V., Lutz, Holly L., Weckstein, Jason D., Clegg, Sonya M. and Clark, Nicholas J. (2019) Climate variation influences host specificity in avian malaria parasites. Ecology Letters, 22 3: 547-557. doi:10.1111/ele.13215
Fountain-Jones, Nicholas M., Clark, Nicholas J., Kinsley, Amy C., Carstensen, Michelle, Forester, James, Johnson, Timothy J., Miller, Elizabeth A., Moore, Seth, Wolf, Tiffany M. and Craft, Meggan E. (2019) Microbial associations and spatial proximity predict North American moose (Alces alces) gastrointestinal community composition. Journal of Animal Ecology, 1-12. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13154
Wells, Konstans, Gibson, David I. and Clark, Nicholas J. (2018) Global patterns in helminth host specificity: phylogenetic and functional diversity of regional host species pools matter. Ecography, . doi:10.1111/ecog.03886
Clark, Nicholas J., Wells, Konstans and Lindberg, Oscar (2018) Unravelling changing interspecific interactions across environmental gradients using Markov random fields. Ecology, 99 6: 1277-1283. doi:10.1002/ecy.2221
Clark, Nicholas J. and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2018) Airborne geographical dispersal of Q fever from livestock holdings to human communities: a systematic review and critical appraisal of evidence. BMC Infectious Diseases, 18 1: 218. doi:10.1186/s12879-018-3135-4
Clark, Nicholas J. (2018) Phylogenetic uniqueness, not latitude, explains the diversity of avian blood parasite communities worldwide. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27 6: 744-755. doi:10.1111/geb.12741
Wells, Konstans, Gibson, David I., Clark, Nicholas J., Ribas, Alexis, Morand, Serge and McCallum, Hamish I. (2018) Global spread of helminth parasites at the human-domestic animal-wildlife interface. Global Change Biology, 24 7: 3254-3265. doi:10.1111/gcb.14064
Clark, Nicholas J., Seddon, Jennifer M., Šlapeta, Jan and Wells, Konstans (2018) Parasite spread at the domestic animal - wildlife interface: anthropogenic habitat use, phylogeny and body mass drive risk of cat and dog flea (Ctenocephalides spp.) infestation in wild mammals. Parasites & Vectors, 11 1: 1-11. doi:10.1186/s13071-017-2564-z
Clark, Nicholas J, Seddon, Jennifer M, Kyaw-Tanner, Myat, Al-Alawneh, John, Harper, Gavin, McDonagh, Phillip and Meers, Joanne (2017) Emergence of canine parvovirus subtype 2b (CPV-2b) infections in Australian dogs. Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases, 58 50-55. doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2017.12.013
Clark, Nicholas J., Clegg, Sonya M., Sam, Katerina, Goulding, William, Koane, Bonny and Wells, Konstans (2017) Climate, host phylogeny and the connectivity of host communities govern regional parasite assembly. Diversity and Distributions, 24 1: 13-23. doi:10.1111/ddi.12661
Clark, Nicholas J. and Clegg, Sonya M. (2017) Integrating phylogenetic and ecological distances reveals new insights into parasite host specificity. Molecular Ecology, 26 11: 3074-3086. doi:10.1111/mec.14101
McKee, J., Clark, N., Shapter, F. and Simmons, G. (2017) A new look at the origins of gibbon ape leukemia virus. Virus Genes, 53 2: 165-172. doi:10.1007/s11262-017-1436-0
Clark, Nicholas J., Wells, Konstans, Dimitrov, Dimitar and Clegg, Sonya M. (2016) Co-infections and environmental conditions drive the distributions of blood parasites in wild birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 85 6: 1461-1470. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12578
Aharon-Rotman, Yaara, Buchanan, Katherine L., Clark, Nicholas J., Klaassen, Marcel and Buttemer, William A. (2016) Why fly the extra mile? Using stress biomarkers to assess wintering habitat quality in migratory shorebirds. Oecologia, 182 2: 385-395. doi:10.1007/s00442-016-3679-1
Clark, Nicholas J., Clegg, Sonya M. and Klaassen, Marcel (2016) Migration strategy and pathogen risk: non-breeding distribution drives malaria prevalence in migratory waders. Oikos, 125 9: 1358-1368. doi:10.1111/oik.03220
Goulding, W., Adlard, R. D., Clegg, S. M. and Clark, N. J. (2016) Molecular and morphological description of Haemoproteus (Parahaemoproteus) bukaka (species nova), a haemosporidian associated with the strictly Australo-Papuan host subfamily Cracticinae. Parasitology Research, 115 9: 3387-3400. doi:10.1007/s00436-016-5099-x
Clark, Nicholas J., Olsson-Pons, Sophie, Ishtiaq, Farah and Clegg, Sonya M. (2015) Specialist enemies, generalist weapons and the potential spread of exotic pathogens: malaria parasites in a highly invasive bird. International Journal for Parasitology, 45 14: 891-899. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2015.08.008
Olsson-Pons, Sophie, Clark, Nicholas J., Ishtiaq, Farah and Clegg, Sonya M. (2015) Differences in host species relationships and biogeographic influences produce contrasting patterns of prevalence, community composition and genetic structure in two genera of avian malaria parasites in southern Melanesia. Journal of Animal Ecology, 84 4: 985-998. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12354
Clark, Nicholas J., Adlard, Robert D. and Clegg, Sonya M. (2015) Molecular and morphological characterization of Haemoproteus (Parahaemoproteus) ptilotis, a parasite infecting Australian honeyeaters (Meliphagidae), with remarks on prevalence and potential cryptic speciation. Parasitology Research, 114 5: 1921-1928. doi:10.1007/s00436-015-4380-8
Clark, Nicholas J. and Clegg, Sonya M. (2015) The influence of vagrant hosts and weather patterns on the colonization and persistence of blood parasites in an island bird. Journal of Biogeography, 42 4: 641-651. doi:10.1111/jbi.12454
Clark, Nicholas J., Clegg, Sonya M. and Lima, Marcos R. (2014) A review of global diversity in avian haemosporidians (Plasmodium and Haemoproteus: Haemosporida): new insights from molecular data. International Journal for Parasitology, 44 5: 329-338. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2014.01.004
Clark, Nicholas J. and Russ, Garry R. (2012) Ontogenetic shifts in the habitat associations of butterflyfishes (F. Chaetodontidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 94 4: 579-590. doi:10.1007/s10641-011-9964-2