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Awareness-driven behavior changes can shift the shape of epidemics away from peaks and toward plateaus, shoulders, and oscillations by Weitz, Joshua S., Park, Sang Woo, Eksin, Ceyhun, Dushoff, Jonathan

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 1,000,000 reported deaths globally, of which more than 200,000 have been reported in the United States as of October…”
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Spatial Interactions and Oscillatory Tragedies of the Commons by Lin, Yu-Hui, Weitz, Joshua S

“…A tragedy of the commons (TOC) occurs when individuals acting in their own self-interest deplete commonly held resources, leading to a worse outcome than had…”
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Synergy between the Host Immune System and Bacteriophage Is Essential for Successful Phage Therapy against an Acute Respiratory Pathogen by Roach, Dwayne R., Leung, Chung Yin, Henry, Marine, Morello, Eric, Singh, Devika, Di Santo, James P., Weitz, Joshua S., Debarbieux, Laurent

“…The rise of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacteria has spurred renewed interest in the use of bacteriophages in therapy. However, mechanisms contributing to…”
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Image-Based High-Throughput Field Phenotyping of Crop Roots by Bucksch, Alexander, Burridge, James, York, Larry M., Das, Abhiram, Nord, Eric, Weitz, Joshua S., Lynch, Jonathan P.

“…Current plant phenotyping technologies to characterize agriculturally relevant traits have been primarily developed for use in laboratory and/or greenhouse…”
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Modeling Post-death Transmission of Ebola: Challenges for Inference and Opportunities for Control by Weitz, Joshua S., Dushoff, Jonathan

“…Multiple epidemiological models have been proposed to predict the spread of Ebola in West Africa. These models include consideration of counter-measures meant…”
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The time scale of asymptomatic transmission affects estimates of epidemic potential in the COVID-19 outbreak by Park, Sang Woo, Cornforth, Daniel M., Dushoff, Jonathan, Weitz, Joshua S.

“…The role of asymptomatic carriers in transmission poses challenges for control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Study of asymptomatic transmission and implications…”
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Systematic biases in disease forecasting – The role of behavior change by Eksin, Ceyhun, Paarporn, Keith, Weitz, Joshua S.

“…•Speed–final size relationship in the SIR model becomes tenuous with behavior change.•Final size predictions should not be predicated on estimates of initial…”
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Revisiting the rules of life for viruses of microorganisms by Correa, Adrienne M. S., Howard-Varona, Cristina, Coy, Samantha R., Buchan, Alison, Sullivan, Matthew B., Weitz, Joshua S.

“…Viruses that infect microbial hosts have traditionally been studied in laboratory settings with a focus on either obligate lysis or persistent lysogeny. In the…”
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Coevolution can reverse predator–prey cycles by Cortez, Michael H., Weitz, Joshua S.

“…A hallmark of Lotka–Volterra models, and other ecological models of predator–prey interactions, is that in predator–prey cycles, peaks in prey abundance…”
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Robust estimation of microbial diversity in theory and in practice by Haegeman, Bart, Hamelin, Jérôme, Moriarty, John, Neal, Peter, Dushoff, Jonathan, Weitz, Joshua S

“…Quantifying diversity is of central importance for the study of structure, function and evolution of microbial communities. The estimation of microbial…”
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The elemental composition of virus particles: implications for marine biogeochemical cycles by Jover, Luis F., Effler, T. Chad, Buchan, Alison, Wilhelm, Steven W., Weitz, Joshua S.

“…Key Points Virus-mediated lysis of host cells results in the generation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and dissolved…”
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Forward-looking serial intervals correctly link epidemic growth to reproduction numbers by Park, Sang Woo, Sun, Kaiyuan, Champredon, David, Li, Michael, Bolker, Benjamin M., Earn, David J. D., Weitz, Joshua S., Grenfell, Bryan T., Dushoff, Jonathan

“…The reproduction number 𝓡 and the growth rate r are critical epidemiological quantities. They are linked by generation intervals, the time between infection…”
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Repeatability and Contingency in the Evolution of a Key Innovation in Phage Lambda by Meyer, Justin R., Dobias, Devin T., Weitz, Joshua S., Barrick, Jeffrey E., Quick, Ryan T., Lenski, Richard E.

“…The processes responsible for the evolution of key innovations, whereby lineages acquire qualitatively new functions that expand their ecological…”
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Statistical structure of host—phage interactions by Flores, Cesar O., Meyer, Justin R., Valverde, Sergi, Farr, Lauren, Weitz, Joshua S.

“…Interactions between bacteria and the viruses that infect them (i.e., phages) have profound effects on biological processes, but despite their importance,…”
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Reconciling early-outbreak estimates of the basic reproductive number and its uncertainty: framework and applications to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak by Park, Sang Woo, Bolker, Benjamin M, Champredon, David, Earn, David J D, Li, Michael, Weitz, Joshua S, Grenfell, Bryan T, Dushoff, Jonathan

“…A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged as a global threat in December 2019. As the epidemic progresses, disease modellers continue to focus on estimating the…”
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Multi-scale structure and geographic drivers of cross-infection within marine bacteria and phages by Flores, Cesar O, Valverde, Sergi, Weitz, Joshua S

“…Bacteriophages are the most abundant biological life forms on Earth. However, relatively little is known regarding which bacteriophages infect and exploit…”
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Metacommunity structure preserves genome diversity in the presence of gene-specific selective sweeps under moderate rates of horizontal gene transfer by Pompei, Simone, Bella, Edoardo, Weitz, Joshua S, Grilli, Jacopo, Lagomarsino, Marco Cosentino

“…The horizontal transfer of genes is fundamental for the eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities, such as oceanic plankton, soil, and the human…”
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A virus or more in (nearly) every cell: ubiquitous networks of virus–host interactions in extreme environments by Munson-McGee, Jacob H., Peng, Shengyun, Dewerff, Samantha, Stepanauskas, Ramunas, Whitaker, Rachel J., Weitz, Joshua S., Young, Mark J.

“…The application of viral and cellular metagenomics to natural environments has expanded our understanding of the structure, functioning, and diversity of…”
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Caution in inferring viral strategies from abundance correlations in marine metagenomes by Alrasheed, Hend, Jin, Rong, Weitz, Joshua S.

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Accounting for cellular-level variation in lysis: implications for virus-host dynamics by Dominguez-Mirazo, Marian, Harris, Jeremy D, Demory, David, Weitz, Joshua S

“…Viral impacts on microbial populations depend on interaction phenotypes-including viral traits spanning the adsorption rate, latent period, and burst size. The…”
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