Skylar Hopkins

Gajewski, Z., McEmurray, P., Wojdak, J., McGregor, C., Zeller, L., Cooper, H., … Hopkins, S. (2024). Nonrandom foraging and resource distributions affect the relationships between host density, contact rates and parasite transmission. ECOLOGY LETTERS, 27(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14385

Taylor, B. W., Allf, B., Hopkins, S. R., Irwin, R. E., Jewell, M., Nevo, O., … Dunn, R. R. (2023). Nature's chefs: Uniting the hidden diversity of food making and preparing species across the tree of life. BioScience, 73(6), 408–421. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad026

Hopkins, S., & Kwak, M. (2023, May). New IUCN Species Survival Commission Parasite Specialist Group launched in 2023. ORYX, Vol. 57, pp. 283–283. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605323000169

Hopkins, S. R., Jones, I. J., Buck, J. C., LeBoa, C., Kwong, L. H., Jacobsen, K., … Sokolow, S. H. (2022). Environmental Persistence of the World's Most Burdensome Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 892366. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.892366

Hopkins, S. R., Lafferty, K. D., Wood, C. L., Olson, S. H., Buck, J. C., De Leo, G. A., … Sokolow, S. H. (2022). Evidence gaps and diversity among potential win–win solutions for conservation and human infectious disease control. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(8), e694–e705. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2542-5196(22)00148-6

Hopkins, S. R., McGregor, C. M., Belden, L. K., & Wojdak, J. M. (2022). Host preferences inhibit transmission from potential superspreader host species. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 289(1971). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0084

Hopkins, S. R., Hoyt, J. R., White, J. P., Kaarakka, H. M., Redell, J. A., DePue, J. E., … Langwig, K. E. (2021). Continued preference for suboptimal habitat reduces bat survival with white-nose syndrome. Nature Communications, 12(1), 166. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20416-5

Jones, I. J., Sokolow, S. H., Chamberlin, A. J., Lund, A. J., Jouanard, N., Bandagny, L., … De Leo, G. (2021). Schistosome infection in Senegal is associated with different spatial extents of risk and ecological drivers for Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(9), e0009712. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009712

Carlson, C. J., Hopkins, S., Bell, K. C., Doña, J., Godfrey, S. S., Kwak, M. L., … Wood, C. L. (2020). A global parasite conservation plan. Biological Conservation, 250, 108596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108596

Hopkins, S. R., Sokolow, S. H., Buck, J. C., De Leo, G. A., Jones, I. J., Kwong, L. H., … Lafferty, K. D. (2020). How to identify win–win interventions that benefit human health and conservation. Nature Sustainability, 4(4), 298–304. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00640-z

Jones, I. J., MacDonald, A. J., Hopkins, S. R., Lund, A. J., Liu, Z. Y.-C., Fawzi, N. I., … Sokolow, S. H. (2020). Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 117(45), 28515–28524. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009240117

Hopkins, S. R., Fleming‐Davies, A. E., Belden, L. K., & Wojdak, J. M. (2020). Systematic review of modelling assumptions and empirical evidence: Does parasite transmission increase nonlinearly with host density? Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11(4), 476–486. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13361

Wood, C. L., Sokolow, S. H., Jones, I. J., Chamberlin, A. J., Lafferty, K. D., Kuris, A. M., … De Leo, G. A. (2019). Precision mapping of snail habitat provides a powerful indicator of human schistosomiasis transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(46), 23182–23191. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903698116

Hopkins, S. R., McGregor, C. M., Belden, L. K., & Wojdak, J. M. (2018). Handling times and saturating transmission functions in a snail–worm symbiosis. Oecologia, 188(1), 277–287. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4206-3

Lafferty, K. D., & Hopkins, S. R. (2018). Unique parasite aDNA in moa coprolites from New Zealand suggests mass parasite extinctions followed human-induced megafauna extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(7), 1411–1413. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722598115

Hopkins, S. R., Wojdak, J. M., & Belden, L. K. (2017). Defensive Symbionts Mediate Host–Parasite Interactions at Multiple Scales. Trends in Parasitology, 33(1), 53–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2016.10.003

Hopkins, S. R., Ocampo, J. M., Wojdak, J. M., & Belden, L. K. (2016). Host community composition and defensive symbionts determine trematode parasite abundance in host communities. Ecosphere, 7(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1278

Hopkins, S. R., Boyle, L. J., Belden, L. K., & Wojdak, J. M. (2015). Dispersal of a defensive symbiont depends on contact between hosts, host health, and host size. Oecologia, 179(2), 307–318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3333-3

Hopkins, S. (2014). Fitness cost of ampicillin resistance in Escherichia coli. BIOS, 85(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1893/0005-3155-85.1.1

Hopkins, S. R., Wyderko, J. A., Sheehy, R. R., Belden, L. K., & Wojdak, J. M. (2013). Parasite predators exhibit a rapid numerical response to increased parasite abundance and reduce transmission to hosts. Ecology and Evolution, 3(13), 4427–4438. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.634