Michael B. Bonsall

This study investigates how larval competition affects gene drive performance in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes using agent-based models and Bayesian optimization.

This study assesses how intensifying ENSO events increase extirpation risk for Peruvian sea lions using Bayesian population modeling and climate scenarios.

Across nearly one million progeny from 10 species, species best predicts homing drive inheritance, while promoter, parent sex and maternal deposition each explain little of the inheritance variation.

The paper identifies polygenic viral factors in African Zika virus strains that enhance mosquito transmission efficiency compared to Asian strains.

This study shows that vector fidelity to initial blood meal hosts can sustain arbovirus transmission even when amplifying hosts are scarce.

The paper tests the social buffering hypothesis across 66 animal species, finding social species have lower demographic sensitivity to environmental variability, especially in unpredictable climates.

This study compares how host age and nutrition affect the density regulation of obligate and facultative bacterial symbionts in tsetse flies, finding that obligate symbionts are more tightly regulated by the host than facultative ones.

This study examines how different vaccination and infection regimes in chickens affect their H9N2-specific IgM and IgY antibody repertoires, revealing public and private clonal responses.

This study shows that prior knowledge of vital rates is more important than time-series duration or life history traits for accurately estimating demographic rates using inverse integral projection models.

The paper develops a quantitative framework to model the temporal dynamics of trauma memory persistence and shows that maintaining memories in a reactivated state prevents their long-term persistence.

This study investigates inheritance bias mechanisms in a CRISPR gene drive in Aedes aegypti, finding two distinct mechanisms: homing in double heterozygous males and meiotic drive.

BugSplit improves taxonomic binning of metagenomic assemblies, enabling accurate detection of novel pathogens and separation of pathogen from host and microbiota sequences.

This paper develops a mathematical model of Campylobacter dynamics in broiler flocks to explain infection transmission and identify key factors driving outbreaks.

This study shows that trophic interaction modifications affect community interaction structure and stability, making trophic networks alone insufficient for predicting ecological dynamics.

This study examines how conspecific and heterospecific larval densities affect survival and development in Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus, finding that competition persists even with sufficient resources.