Jesse Brunner

Climate change and Ixodes tick-borne diseases of humans
Ostfeld, Richard S., and Jesse L. Brunner. 2015. “Climate Change and Ixodes Tick-Borne Diseases of Humans”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 370. doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0051.
Prevalence of Human-Active and Variant 1 Strains of the Tick-Borne Pathogen Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Hosts and Forests of Eastern North America
Keesing, Felicia, Diana J. McHenry, Michelle H. Hersh, Michael Tibbetts, Jesse L. Brunner, Mary E. Killilea, Kathleen M. LoGiudice, Kenneth Schmidt, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2014. “Prevalence of Human-Active and Variant 1 Strains of the Tick-Borne Pathogen Anaplasma Phagocytophilum in Hosts and Forests of Eastern North America”. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 91 (2): 302-9. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.13-0525.
Co-Infection of Blacklegged Ticks with Babesia microti and Borrelia burgdorferi Is Higher than Expected and Acquired from Small Mammal Hosts
Hersh, Michelle H., Richard S. Ostfeld, Diana J. McHenry, Michael Tibbetts, Jesse L. Brunner, Mary E. Killilea, Kathleen M. LoGiudice, Kenneth Schmidt, and Felicia Keesing. 2014. “Co-Infection of Blacklegged Ticks With Babesia Microti and Borrelia Burgdorferi Is Higher Than Expected and Acquired from Small Mammal Hosts”. PLoS ONE 9 (6): e99348. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099348.
An Experimental Test of Competition among Mice, Chipmunks, and Squirrels in Deciduous Forest Fragments
Brunner, Jesse L., S.T.K. Duerr, Felicia Keesing, Mary E. Killilea, Holly Vuong, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2013. “An Experimental Test of Competition Among Mice, Chipmunks, and Squirrels in Deciduous Forest Fragments”. PLoS ONE 8 (6): e66798. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066798.
Overwintering Survival of Nymphal <i>Ixodes scapularis</i> (Acari: Ixodidae) Under Natural Conditions
Brunner, Jesse L., Mary E. Killilea, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2012. “Overwintering Survival of Nymphal <i>Ixodes scapularis< I> (Acari: Ixodidae) Under Natural Conditions”. Journal of Medical Entomology 49 (5): 981-87. doi:10.1603/ME12060.
Reservoir Competence of Vertebrate Hosts for Anaplasma phagocytophilum
Keesing, Felicia, Michelle H. Hersh, Michael Tibbetts, Diana J. McHenry, S.T.K. Duerr, Jesse L. Brunner, Mary E. Killilea, Kathleen M. LoGiudice, Kenneth Schmidt, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2012. “Reservoir Competence of Vertebrate Hosts for Anaplasma Phagocytophilum”. Emerging Infectious Diseases 18 (12): 2013-13. doi:10.3201/eid1812.120919.
Partitioning the aggregation of parasites on hosts into intrinsic and extrinsic components via an extended Poisson-gamma mixture model
Calabrese, J., Jesse L. Brunner, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2011. “Partitioning the Aggregation of Parasites on Hosts into Intrinsic and Extrinsic Components via an Extended Poisson-Gamma Mixture Model”. PLOS One 6: e29215. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029215.
Molting success of Ixodes scapularis varies among individual blood meal hosts and species
Brunner, Jesse L., L. Cheney, Felicia Keesing, Mary E. Killilea, Kathleen M. LoGiudice, Andrea Previtali, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2011. “Molting Success of Ixodes Scapularis Varies Among Individual Blood Meal Hosts and Species”. J. Med. Ent. 48: 860-66. http://www.caryinstitute.org/reprints/Brunner_etal_2011_JME.pdf.
Hosts as ecological traps for the vector of Lyme disease
Keesing, Felicia, Jesse L. Brunner, S.T.K. Duerr, Mary E. Killilea, Kathleen M. LoGiudice, Kenneth Schmidt, Holly Vuong, and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2009. “Hosts As Ecological Traps for the Vector of Lyme Disease”. P. Roy. Soc. B.-Biol. Sci. 276: 3911-19. http://www.caryinstitute.org/reprints/Keesing_2009_ProcB.pdf.
Multiple causes of variable tick burdens on small-mammal hosts
Brunner, Jesse L., and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2008. “Multiple Causes of Variable Tick Burdens on Small-Mammal Hosts”. Ecology 89: 2259-72. http://www.caryinstitute.org/reprints/Ostfeld_Brunner_2008_Ecology.pdf.