Publications
† - graduate student contributor
‡ - undergraduate student contributor
Luis, A.D. and D.E. Pearson. 2026. Community Assembly Reveals How Environmental Controls Over Rodent Competition Drive Deer Mouse Density and Hantavirus Infection. Ecology Letters 29:4.
Friant. S., J. Mistrick, A.D. Luis, C. Harden, D. Simons, E. Fichet-Calvet, R. Gibb, N. Grube, H. Henttonen, N. Imirizian, L. Moses, G.H. Perry, D. Redding, N.C. Stenseth, K. Vandegrift, O.N. Bjornstad, A. Dobson, J.O. Lloyd-Smith, P.J. Hudson. 2025. Reducing the threats of rodent-borne zoonoses requires an understanding and leveraging of three key pillars: disease ecology, synanthropy, and rodentation. The Lancet Planetary Health 9:9.
Fischer, L.M., A.D. Luis, B.R. Hossack, T.A. McMahon, W.H. Lowe. 2025. Ecosystem-engineered infections: beaver-modified wetlands are associated with conflicting drivers of amphibian pathogen prevalence. Royal Society Open Science 12:7.
Eleftheriou, A. † and A.D. Luis. 2025. Unraveling the Mechanistic Links Between Species Diversity and Infection Risk From Zoonotic Pathogens With Direct Transmission Among Reservoir Hosts: Rodent-Orthohantavirus Systems as Models. Ecology and Evolution 15:16.
Kuenzi, A.J. and A.D. Luis. 2023. Food availability leads to more connected contact networks among peridomestic zoonotic reservoir hosts. Royal Society Open Science 10:11.
Mitchell, C.L., A.R. Schwarzer, A. Miarinjara, C.O. Jarrett, A.D. Luis, B.J. Hinnebusch. 2022. A role for early-phase transmission in the enzootic maintenance of plague. PLoS Pathogens 18:12.
Eleftheriou, A.†, S.H. Williams, A.D. Luis. 2022. Physiological links with behavior and fitness: The acute adrenocortical response predicts trappability but not survival in male and female deermice. Hormones and Behavior 143.
Sells, S.N., M.S. Mitchell, D.E. Ausband, A.D. Luis, D.J. Emlenm, K.V. Podruzny, J.A. Gude. 2022. Economical defence of resources structures territorial space use in a cooperative carnivore. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289:1966.
Eleftheriou, A.†, A.J. Kuenzi, A.D. Luis. 2021. Heterospecific competitors and seasonality can affect host physiology and behavior, key factors in disease transmission. Ecosphere 12:e03494.
Lekberg, Y., C.A. Arnillas, E.T. Borer, L.S. Bullington, N. Fiere, P.G. Kennedy, J.W. Leff, A.D. Luis. E.W. Seabloom, J.A. Henning. 2021. Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils. Nature Communications 12: 3484.
Clark, T.J. †, J.S. Horne, M. Hebblewhite, A.D. Luis. 2021. Stochastic predation exposes prey to predator pits and local extinctions. Oikos 130: 300-309.
Eleftheriou, A. † and A.D. Luis. 2020. Leukocyte evaluation of the free-ranging deermouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) from Montana, USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 56:717-720.
Clark, T.J. † and A.D. Luis. 2020. Nonlinear population dynamics are ubiquitous in animals. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4:75-81.
Luis, A.D., A.J. Kuenzi, and J.N. Mills. 2018. Species diversity concurrently dilutes and amplifies transmission in a zoonotic host-pathogen system through competing mechanisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115:7979-7984.
D.T.S. Hayman, A.D. Luis, O. Restif, K.S. Baker, A.R. Fooks, C. Leach, D.L. Horton, R. Suu-Ire, A.A. Cunningham, J.L.N. Wood, C.T. Webb. 2018. Maternal antibody and the maintenance of a lyssavirus in populations of seasonally breeding African bats. PLoS One 13:e0198653.
Gorsich, E.E., A.D. Luis, M.G. Buhnerkempe, D.A. Grear, K. Portacci, R.S. Miller, C.T. Webb. 2016. Mapping U.S. cattle shipment networks: spatial and temporal patterns of trade communities from 2009-2011. Preventative Veterinary Medicine 134:82-91.
Luis, A.D., T.J. O’Shea, D.T.S. Hayman, J.L.N. Wood, A.A. Cunningham, A.T. Gilbert, J.N. Mills, C.T. Webb. 2015. Network analysis of host-virus communities in bats and rodents reveals determinants of cross-species transmission. Ecology Letters 18:1153-1162.
Luis, A.D., R.J. Douglass, J.N. Mills, O.N. Bjørnstad. 2015. Environmental fluctuations lead to predictability in Sin Nombre hantavirus outbreaks. Ecology 96:1691-1701.
Carver, S.S., J.N. Mills, C.A. Parmenter, R.R. Parmenter, K. Richardson, R.L. Harris, R.J. Douglass, A.J. Kuenzi, A.D. Luis. 2015. Toward a mechanistic understanding of environmentally forced zoonotic disease emergence: Sin Nombre hantavirus. Bioscience 65:651-666.
Tian H.Y.*, P.B. Yu*, A.D. Luis*, B. Peng, B. Cazalles, M. Laine, S.Q. Huang, C.F. Ma, S. Zhou, J. Wei, S. Li, X.L. Lu, J.H. Qu, J.H. Dong, S.L. Tong, J.J. Wang, B.T. Grenfell, B. Xu. 2015. Changes in rodent abundance and weather conditions potentially drive hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome outbreaks in Xi’an, China, 2005-2012. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 9:e0003530. (* equal contribution authors)
Pepin, K.M., C.B. Leach, C. Marques-Toledo, K.H. Lass, K.S. Paixao, A.D. Luis, D.T.S. Hayman, N. Johnson, M. Buhnerkepmpe, S.S. Carver, D.A. Grear, K. Tsao, A.E. Eiras, C.T. Webb. 2015. Utility of mosquito surveillance data for spatial prioritization of vector control against dengue viruses in three Brazilian cities. Parasites and Vectors 8:98.
Peel, A.J., J.R.C.Pulliam, A.D. Luis, R.K. Plowright, D.T.S. Hayman, T.J. O’Shea, J.L.N Wood, C.T. Webb, O. Restif. 2014. The effect of seasonal birth pulses on pathogen persistence in a wildlife population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Life Sciences 281:20132962.
O’Shea, T.J., P.M. Cryan, A.A. Cunningham, D.T.S. Hayman, A.D. Luis, A.J. Peel, R.K. Plowright. 2014. Bat flight and emerging zoonotic viruses. Emerging Infectious Diseases 20:741-745.
Luis, A.D., D.T.S. Hayman, T.J. O’Shea, P.M. Cryan, A.T. Gilbert, J.R.C. Pulliam, J.N. Mills, M.E. Timonin, C.K.R. Willis, A.A. Cunningham, A.R. Fooks, C.E. Rupprecht, J.L.N. Wood, C.T. Webb. 2013. A comparison of bats and rodents as reservoirs of zoonotic viruses: Are bats special? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Life Sciences 280:20122753. (Featured in Research Highlights in Nature 494:150-151.)
Restif, O., D.T.S. Hayman, J.R.C. Pulliam, R.K. Plowright, D.B. George, A.D. Luis, A.A. Cunningham, R.A. Bowen, A.R. Fooks, T.J. O’Shea, J.L.N. Wood, C.T. Webb. 2012. Model-guided fieldwork: practical guidelines for multi-disciplinary research on wildlife ecological and epidemiological dynamics. Ecology Letters 15:1083-1094.
Luis, A.D., R.J. Douglass, P.J. Hudson, J.N. Mills, O.N. Bjørnstad. 2012. Sin Nombre Hantavirus Decreases Survival of Male Deer Mice. Oecologia 169:431-439.
Luis, A.D., R.J. Douglass, J.N. Mills, O.N. Bjørnstad. 2010. The effect of seasonality, density, and climate on the population dynamics of Montana deer mice, important reservoir hosts for Sin Nombre hantavirus. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:462-470. (Featured in a virtual issue on Animal Ecology – legacy of Charles S Elton)
Luis, A.D. and P.J. Hudson. 2006. Hibernation patterns in mammals: a role for bacterial growth? Functional Ecology 20: 471-477.
Hickman-Miller, H.D., W. Bardet, A. Gilb, A.D. Luis, K.W. Jackson, D.I. Watkins, W.H. Hildebrand. 2005. Rhesus macaque MHC class I molecules present HLA-B-like peptides. Journal of Immunology 175: 367-75.
Hickman, H.D., A.D. Luis, R. Buchli, S.R. Few, M. Sathiamurthy, R.S. VanGundy, C.F. Giberson, W.H. Hildebrand. 2004. Toward a definition of self: proteomic evaluation of the class I peptide repertoire. Journal of Immunology 172: 2944-52.
Hickman, H.D., A.D. Luis, W. Bardet, R. Buchli, C.L. Battson, M.H. Shearer. K.W. Jackson, R.C. Kennedy, W.H. Hildebrand. 2003. Cutting Edge: Class I presentation of host peptides following HIV infection. Journal of Immunology 171: 22-26.