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Mercedes Pascual

TitleProfessor
InstitutionUniversity of Chicago
DepartmentEcology and Evolution
AddressChicago IL 60637
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    Universidad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaLicenciatura12/1985Biology
    New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NMM.Sc.06/1989Mathematics
    WHOI and MIT, Woods Hole, MAPhD07/1995Biological Oceanography
    Princeton University, Princeton, NJPostoctoral08/1997Theoretical Ecology
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    1995 - 1997US Department of Energy Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University
    1999 - 2008James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in Global and Complex Systems, University of Michigan
    2003Discover Magazine: Top 50 Women in Science
    2003Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
    2004Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan
    2008Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan
    2008Howard Hugues Medical Investigator, University of Michigan
    2014Robert H. MacArthur Award of the Ecological Society of America
    2015Fellow of the Ecological Society of America
    2019American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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    1. Pascual M, Baeza A. What happens when forests fall? Elife. 2021 04 06; 10. PMID: 33821799.
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    2. Rodó X, Martinez PP, Siraj A, Pascual M. Malaria trends in Ethiopian highlands track the 2000 'slowdown' in global warming. Nat Commun. 2021 03 10; 12(1):1555. PMID: 33692343.
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    3. Subramanian R, He Q, Pascual M. Quantifying asymptomatic infection and transmission of COVID-19 in New York City using observed cases, serology, and testing capacity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 03 02; 118(9). PMID: 33571106.
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    4. He Q, Pascual M. An antigenic diversification threshold for falciparum malaria transmission at high endemicity. PLoS Comput Biol. 2021 Feb; 17(2):e1008729. PMID: 33606682.
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    5. Pilosof S, Alcalá-Corona SA, Wang T, Kim T, Maslov S, Whitaker R, Pascual M. The network structure and eco-evolutionary dynamics of CRISPR-induced immune diversification. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 12; 4(12):1650-1660. PMID: 33077929.
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    6. Subramanian R, Romeo-Aznar V, Ionides E, Codeço CT, Pascual M. Predicting re-emergence times of dengue epidemics at low reproductive numbers: DENV1 in Rio de Janeiro, 1986-1990. J R Soc Interface. 2020 06; 17(167):20200273. PMID: 32574544.
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    7. Martinez PP, Mahmud AS, Yunus M, Faruque ASG, Ahmed T, Pascual M, Buckee CO. Tube Well Use as Protection Against Rotavirus Infection During the Monsoons in an Urban Setting. J Infect Dis. 2020 01 02; 221(2):238-242. PMID: 31776559.
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    8. Castro MC, Baeza A, Codeço CT, Cucunubá ZM, Dal'Asta AP, De Leo GA, Dobson AP, Carrasco-Escobar G, Lana RM, Lowe R, Monteiro AMV, Pascual M, Santos-Vega M. Development, environmental degradation, and disease spread in the Brazilian Amazon. PLoS Biol. 2019 11; 17(11):e3000526. PMID: 31730640.
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    9. Pilosof S, He Q, Tiedje KE, Ruybal-Pesántez S, Day KP, Pascual M. Competition for hosts modulates vast antigenic diversity to generate persistent strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum. PLoS Biol. 2019 06; 17(6):e3000336. PMID: 31233490.
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    10. Romeo-Aznar V, Paul R, Telle O, Pascual M. Mosquito-borne transmission in urban landscapes: the missing link between vector abundance and human density. Proc Biol Sci. 2018 08 15; 285(1884). PMID: 30111594.
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    11. Rorick MM, Baskerville EB, Rask TS, Day KP, Pascual M. Identifying functional groups among the diverse, recombining antigenic var genes of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum from a local community in Ghana. PLoS Comput Biol. 2018 06; 14(6):e1006174. PMID: 29897905.
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    12. He Q, Pilosof S, Tiedje KE, Ruybal-Pesántez S, Artzy-Randrup Y, Baskerville EB, Day KP, Pascual M. Networks of genetic similarity reveal non-neutral processes shape strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum. Nat Commun. 2018 05 08; 9(1):1817. PMID: 29739937.
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    13. Rorick MM, Artzy-Randrup Y, Ruybal-Pesántez S, Tiedje KE, Rask TS, Oduro A, Ghansah A, Koram K, Day KP, Pascual M. Signatures of competition and strain structure within the major blood-stage antigen of Plasmodium falciparum in a local community in Ghana. Ecol Evol. 2018 Apr; 8(7):3574-3588. PMID: 29686839.
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    14. Du X, Pascual M. Incidence Prediction for the 2017-2018 Influenza Season in the United States with an Evolution-informed Model. PLoS Curr. 2018 Jan 17; 10. PMID: 29588875.
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    15. Michalska-Smith MJ, Sander EL, Pascual M, Allesina S. Understanding the role of parasites in food webs using the group model. J Anim Ecol. 2018 05; 87(3):790-800. PMID: 29119557.
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    16. Du X, King AA, Woods RJ, Pascual M. Evolution-informed forecasting of seasonal influenza A (H3N2). Sci Transl Med. 2017 Oct 25; 9(413). PMID: 29070700.
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    17. Tiedje KE, Oduro AR, Agongo G, Anyorigiya T, Azongo D, Awine T, Ghansah A, Pascual M, Koram KA, Day KP. Seasonal Variation in the Epidemiology of Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum Infections across Two Catchment Areas in Bongo District, Ghana. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2017 Jul; 97(1):199-212. PMID: 28719306.
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    18. Day KP, Artzy-Randrup Y, Tiedje KE, Rougeron V, Chen DS, Rask TS, Rorick MM, Migot-Nabias F, Deloron P, Luty AJF, Pascual M. Evidence of strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum var gene repertoires in children from Gabon, West Africa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 05 16; 114(20):E4103-E4111. PMID: 28461509.
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    19. Pilosof S, Porter MA, Pascual M, Kéfi S. The multilayer nature of ecological networks. Nat Ecol Evol. 2017 Mar 23; 1(4):101. PMID: 28812678.
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    20. Baeza A, Santos-Vega M, Dobson AP, Pascual M. The rise and fall of malaria under land-use change in frontier regions. Nat Ecol Evol. 2017 Mar 20; 1(5):108. PMID: 28812707.
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    21. Martinez PP, Reiner RC, Cash BA, Rodó X, Shahjahan Mondal M, Roy M, Yunus M, Faruque AS, Huq S, King AA, Pascual M. Cholera forecast for Dhaka, Bangladesh, with the 2015-2016 El Niño: Lessons learned. PLoS One. 2017; 12(3):e0172355. PMID: 28253325.
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    22. Santos-Vega M, Bouma MJ, Kohli V, Pascual M. Population Density, Climate Variables and Poverty Synergistically Structure Spatial Risk in Urban Malaria in India. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 12; 10(12):e0005155. PMID: 27906962.
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    23. Perez-Saez J, King AA, Rinaldo A, Yunus M, Faruque ASG, Pascual M. Climate-driven endemic cholera is modulated by human mobility in a megacity. Adv Water Resour. 2017 Oct; 108:367-376. PMID: 29081572.
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    24. Santos-Vega M, Martinez PP, Pascual M. Climate forcing and infectious disease transmission in urban landscapes: integrating demographic and socioeconomic heterogeneity. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2016 10; 1382(1):44-55. PMID: 27681053.
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    25. Martinez PP, King AA, Yunus M, Faruque AS, Pascual M. Differential and enhanced response to climate forcing in diarrheal disease due to rotavirus across a megacity of the developing world. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Apr 12; 113(15):4092-7. PMID: 27035949.
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    26. Golubski AJ, Westlund EE, Vandermeer J, Pascual M. Ecological Networks over the Edge: Hypergraph Trait-Mediated Indirect Interaction (TMII) Structure. Trends Ecol Evol. 2016 05; 31(5):344-354. PMID: 26924738.
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    27. Siraj AS, Bouma MJ, Santos-Vega M, Yeshiwondim AK, Rothman DS, Yadeta D, Sutton PC, Pascual M. Temperature and population density determine reservoir regions of seasonal persistence in highland malaria. Proc Biol Sci. 2015 12 07; 282(1820):20151383. PMID: 26631558.
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    28. Roy M, Bouma M, Dhiman RC, Pascual M. Predictability of epidemic malaria under non-stationary conditions with process-based models combining epidemiological updates and climate variability. Malar J. 2015 Oct 26; 14:419. PMID: 26502881.
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    29. Pascual M. Climate and Population Immunity in Malaria Dynamics: Harnessing Information from Endemicity Gradients. Trends Parasitol. 2015 Nov; 31(11):532-534. PMID: 26422773.
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    30. D'Souza K, Epureanu BI, Pascual M. Forecasting Bifurcations from Large Perturbation Recoveries in Feedback Ecosystems. PLoS One. 2015; 10(9):e0137779. PMID: 26356503.
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    31. Artzy-Randrup Y, Dobson AP, Pascual M. Synergistic and antagonistic interactions between bednets and vaccines in the control of malaria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Mar 10; 112(10):3014-9. PMID: 25605894.
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    32. Zinder D, Bedford T, Baskerville EB, Woods RJ, Roy M, Pascual M. Seasonality in the migration and establishment of H3N2 Influenza lineages with epidemic growth and decline. BMC Evol Biol. 2014 12 24; 14:272. PMID: 25539729.
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    33. Cash BA, Rodó X, Emch M, Yunus M, Faruque AS, Pascual M. Cholera and shigellosis: different epidemiology but similar responses to climate variability. PLoS One. 2014; 9(9):e107223. PMID: 25229494.
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    34. Roy M, Zinck RD, Bouma MJ, Pascual M. Epidemic cholera spreads like wildfire. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan 15; 4:3710. PMID: 24424273.
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    35. Rorick MM, Rask TS, Baskerville EB, Day KP, Pascual M. Homology blocks of Plasmodium falciparum var genes and clinically distinct forms of severe malaria in a local population. BMC Microbiol. 2013 Nov 06; 13:244. PMID: 24192078.
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    36. Baeza A, Bouma MJ, Dhiman RC, Baskerville EB, Ceccato P, Yadav RS, Pascual M. Long-lasting transition toward sustainable elimination of desert malaria under irrigation development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Sep 10; 110(37):15157-62. PMID: 23942131.
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    37. Rorick MM, Pascual M. Influenza evolution navigates stability valleys. Elife. 2013 May 14; 2:e00842. PMID: 23682318.
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    38. Baeza A, Bouma MJ, Dhiman R, Pascual M. Malaria control under unstable dynamics: reactive vs. climate-based strategies. Acta Trop. 2014 Jan; 129:42-51. PMID: 23567551.
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    39. Roy M, Bouma MJ, Ionides EL, Dhiman RC, Pascual M. The potential elimination of Plasmodium vivax malaria by relapse treatment: insights from a transmission model and surveillance data from NW India. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013; 7(1):e1979. PMID: 23326611.
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    40. Zinder D, Bedford T, Gupta S, Pascual M. The roles of competition and mutation in shaping antigenic and genetic diversity in influenza. PLoS Pathog. 2013 Jan; 9(1):e1003104. PMID: 23300455.
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    41. Artzy-Randrup Y, Rorick MM, Day K, Chen D, Dobson AP, Pascual M. Population structuring of multi-copy, antigen-encoding genes in Plasmodium falciparum. Elife. 2012 Dec 18; 1:e00093. PMID: 23251784.
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    42. Bedford T, Rambaut A, Pascual M. Canalization of the evolutionary trajectory of the human influenza virus. BMC Biol. 2012 Apr 30; 10:38. PMID: 22546494.
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    43. Reiner RC, King AA, Emch M, Yunus M, Faruque AS, Pascual M. Highly localized sensitivity to climate forcing drives endemic cholera in a megacity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Feb 07; 109(6):2033-6. PMID: 22308325.
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    44. Baskerville EB, Dobson AP, Bedford T, Allesina S, Anderson TM, Pascual M. Spatial guilds in the Serengeti food web revealed by a Bayesian group model. PLoS Comput Biol. 2011 Dec; 7(12):e1002321. PMID: 22219719.
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    45. Bouma MJ, Baeza A, terVeen A, Pascual M. Global malaria maps and climate change: a focus on East African highlands. Trends Parasitol. 2011 Oct; 27(10):421-2. PMID: 21873114.
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    46. Bedford T, Cobey S, Pascual M. Strength and tempo of selection revealed in viral gene genealogies. BMC Evol Biol. 2011 Jul 25; 11:220. PMID: 21787390.
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    47. Baeza A, Bouma MJ, Dobson AP, Dhiman R, Srivastava HC, Pascual M. Climate forcing and desert malaria: the effect of irrigation. Malar J. 2011 Jul 14; 10:190. PMID: 21756317.
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    48. Pascual M, Roy M, Laneri K. Simple models for complex systems: exploiting the relationship between local and global densities. Theor Ecol. 2011; 4:211-222. PMID: 25540675.
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    49. Kéfi S, Rietkerk M, Roy M, Franc A, de Ruiter PC, Pascual M. Robust scaling in ecosystems and the meltdown of patch size distributions before extinction. Ecol Lett. 2011 Jan; 14(1):29-35. PMID: 21070563.
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    50. Alonso D, Bouma MJ, Pascual M. Epidemic malaria and warmer temperatures in recent decades in an East African highland. Proc Biol Sci. 2011 Jun 07; 278(1712):1661-9. PMID: 21068045.
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    51. Artzy-Randrup Y, Alonso D, Pascual M. Transmission intensity and drug resistance in malaria population dynamics: implications for climate change. PLoS One. 2010 Oct 26; 5(10):e13588. PMID: 21060886.
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    52. Laneri K, Bhadra A, Ionides EL, Bouma M, Dhiman RC, Yadav RS, Pascual M. Forcing versus feedback: epidemic malaria and monsoon rains in northwest India. PLoS Comput Biol. 2010 Sep 02; 6(9):e1000898. PMID: 20824122.
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    53. Bedford T, Cobey S, Beerli P, Pascual M. Global migration dynamics underlie evolution and persistence of human influenza A (H3N2). PLoS Pathog. 2010 May 27; 6(5):e1000918. PMID: 20523898.
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    54. Ruiz-Moreno D, Pascual M, Emch M, Yunus M. Spatial clustering in the spatio-temporal dynamics of endemic cholera. BMC Infect Dis. 2010 Mar 06; 10:51. PMID: 20205935.
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    55. Warren CP, Pascual M, Lafferty KD, Kuris AM. The inverse niche model for food webs with parasites. Theor Ecol. 2010; 3:285-294. PMID: 25540673.
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    56. Allesina S, Pascual M. Googling food webs: can an eigenvector measure species' importance for coextinctions? PLoS Comput Biol. 2009 Sep; 5(9):e1000494. PMID: 19730676.
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    57. Chaves LF, Kaneko A, Pascual M. Random, top-down, or bottom-up coexistence of parasites: malaria population dynamics in multi-parasitic settings. Ecology. 2009 Sep; 90(9):2414-25. PMID: 19769120.
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    58. Pascual M, Dobson AP, Bouma MJ. Underestimating malaria risk under variable temperatures. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Aug 18; 106(33):13645-6. PMID: 19706496.
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    59. Dobson A, Allesina S, Lafferty K, Pascual M. The assembly, collapse and restoration of food webs. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2009 Jun 27; 364(1524):1803-6. PMID: 19451129.
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    60. Allesina S, Bodini A, Pascual M. Functional links and robustness in food webs. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2009 Jun 27; 364(1524):1701-9. PMID: 19451121.
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    61. Koelle K, Kamradt M, Pascual M. Understanding the dynamics of rapidly evolving pathogens through modeling the tempo of antigenic change: influenza as a case study. Epidemics. 2009 Jun; 1(2):129-37. PMID: 21352760.
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    62. Allesina S, Pascual M. Food web models: a plea for groups. Ecol Lett. 2009 Jul; 12(7):652-62. PMID: 19453619.
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    63. Pascual M, Bouma MJ. Do rising temperatures matter? Ecology. 2009 Apr; 90(4):906-12. PMID: 19449684.
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    64. King AA, Ionides EL, Pascual M, Bouma MJ. Inapparent infections and cholera dynamics. Nature. 2008 Aug 14; 454(7206):877-80. PMID: 18704085.
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    65. Chaves LF, Kaneko A, Taleo G, Pascual M, Wilson ML. Malaria transmission pattern resilience to climatic variability is mediated by insecticide-treated nets. Malar J. 2008 Jun 02; 7:100. PMID: 18518983.
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    66. Lafferty KD, Allesina S, Arim M, Briggs CJ, De Leo G, Dobson AP, Dunne JA, Johnson PT, Kuris AM, Marcogliese DJ, Martinez ND, Memmott J, Marquet PA, McLaughlin JP, Mordecai EA, Pascual M, Poulin R, Thieltges DW. Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links. Ecol Lett. 2008 Jun; 11(6):533-46. PMID: 18462196.
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    67. Allesina S, Alonso D, Pascual M. A general model for food web structure. Science. 2008 May 02; 320(5876):658-61. PMID: 18451301.
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    68. Codeço CT, Lele S, Pascual M, Bouma M, Ko AI. A stochastic model for ecological systems with strong nonlinear response to environmental drivers: application to two water-borne diseases. J R Soc Interface. 2008 Feb 06; 5(19):247-52. PMID: 17698477.
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    69. Chaves LF, Cohen JM, Pascual M, Wilson ML. Social exclusion modifies climate and deforestation impacts on a vector-borne disease. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 Feb 06; 2(1):e176. PMID: 18265876.
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    70. Chaves LF, Pascual M. Comparing models for early warning systems of neglected tropical diseases. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2007 Oct 22; 1(1):e33. PMID: 17989780.
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    71. Alonso D, McKane AJ, Pascual M. Stochastic amplification in epidemics. J R Soc Interface. 2007 Jun 22; 4(14):575-82. PMID: 17251128.
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    72. Chaves LF, Hernandez MJ, Dobson AP, Pascual M. Sources and sinks: revisiting the criteria for identifying reservoirs for American cutaneous leishmaniasis. Trends Parasitol. 2007 Jul; 23(7):311-6. PMID: 17524806.
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    73. Aparicio JP, Pascual M. Building epidemiological models from R0: an implicit treatment of transmission in networks. Proc Biol Sci. 2007 Feb 22; 274(1609):505-12. PMID: 17476770.
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    74. Koelle K, Cobey S, Grenfell B, Pascual M. Epochal evolution shapes the phylodynamics of interpandemic influenza A (H3N2) in humans. Science. 2006 Dec 22; 314(5807):1898-903. PMID: 17185596.
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    75. Koelle K, Pascual M, Yunus M. Serotype cycles in cholera dynamics. Proc Biol Sci. 2006 Nov 22; 273(1603):2879-86. PMID: 17015366.
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    76. Peacor SD, Allesina S, Riolo RL, Pascual M. Phenotypic plasticity opposes species invasions by altering fitness surface. PLoS Biol. 2006 Oct; 4(11):e372. PMID: 17076585.
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    77. Koelle K, Rodó X, Pascual M, Yunus M, Mostafa G. Refractory periods and climate forcing in cholera dynamics. Nature. 2005 Aug 04; 436(7051):696-700. PMID: 16079845.
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    78. Koelle K, Pascual M, Yunus M. Pathogen adaptation to seasonal forcing and climate change. Proc Biol Sci. 2005 May 07; 272(1566):971-7. PMID: 16024354.
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    79. Roy M, Pascual M, Levin SA. Competitive coexistence in a dynamic landscape. Theor Popul Biol. 2004 Dec; 66(4):341-53. PMID: 15560912.
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    80. Palmer M, Bernhardt E, Chornesky E, Collins S, Dobson A, Duke C, Gold B, Jacobson R, Kingsland S, Kranz R, Mappin M, Martinez ML, Micheli F, Morse J, Pace M, Pascual M, Palumbi S, Reichman OJ, Simons A, Townsend A, Turner M. Ecology. Ecology for a crowded planet. Science. 2004 May 28; 304(5675):1251-2. PMID: 15166349.
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    81. Rodo X, Pascual M, Fuchs G, Faruque AS. ENSO and cholera: a nonstationary link related to climate change? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Oct 01; 99(20):12901-6. PMID: 12228724.
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    82. Pascual M, Roy M, Guichard F, Flierl G. Cluster size distributions: signatures of self-organization in spatial ecologies. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2002 May 29; 357(1421):657-66. PMID: 12079527.
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    83. Pascual M, Bouma MJ, Dobson AP. Cholera and climate: revisiting the quantitative evidence. Microbes Infect. 2002 Feb; 4(2):237-45. PMID: 11880057.
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