Research in my lab is on the evolution and epidemiology of infectious disease in natural populations. Current research questions focus on the role of diseases in determining species range limits, host-pathogen co-evolution, and the evolutionary dynamics of sexually transmitted diseases. The research combines theoretical modeling with empirical research on sexually transmitted diseases of plants (the anther smuts) and analysis of datasets involving diseases of organisms ranging from bumble-bees to humans.

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Antonovics, J. 2005. Plant venereal diseases: insights from a messy metaphor. New Phytologist 165: 71-80.

Antonovics, J., Hood, M. E., and Baker, C. H. 2006. Was the 1918 flu avian in origin? Nature 440: E9

Antonovics, J., Abbate, J.L., Baker, C. H., Daley, D., Hood, M. E., Jenkins, C. E., Johnson, L. J., Murray, J. J., Panjeti, V., Volker H. W. Rudolf, V. W. H., Sloan, D., Vondrasek, J. 2007. Evolution by any other name: antibiotic resistance and avoidance of the e-word. PLOS Biology 5: e30.

Rudolf, V., and Antonovics, J. 2007. Disease transmission by cannibalism: rare event or common occurrence? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London , Series B 274:1205-10.