Christopher M Kribs-Zaleta
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Kribs-Zaleta C, Mitchell C
Math Biosci Eng
. 2014 Nov;
11(6):1275-94.
PMID: 25365602
Honeybee pollination accounts annually for over $14 billion in United States agriculture alone. Within the past decade there has been a mysterious mass die-off of honeybees, an estimated 10 million...
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Kribs-Zaleta C
J Theor Biol
. 2014 Mar;
353:34-43.
PMID: 24632446
The notion of evolutionary trade-off (one attribute increasing at the expense of another) is central to the evolution of traits, well-studied especially in life-history theory, where a framework first developed...
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Kribs-Zaleta C
Math Biosci Eng
. 2013 Nov;
10(5-6):1587-607.
PMID: 24245636
Mathematical models are well-established as metaphors for biological and epidemiological systems. The framework of epidemic modeling has also been applied to sociological phenomena driven by peer pressure, notably in two...
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Camacho E, Kribs-Zaleta C, Wirkus S
Math Biosci Eng
. 2013 Nov;
10(5-6):1351-63.
PMID: 24245620
This article details the history, logistical operations, and design philosophy of the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI), a nationally recognized research program with an 18-year history of mentoring researchers...
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Bani R, Hameed R, Szymanowski S, Greenwood P, Kribs-Zaleta C, Mubayi A
Math Biosci Eng
. 2013 Nov;
10(5-6):1281-300.
PMID: 24245617
Alcohol abuse is a major problem, especially among students on and around college campuses. We use the mathematical framework of [16] and study the role of environmental factors on the...
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Pelosse P, Kribs-Zaleta C, Ginoux M, Rabinovich J, Gourbiere S, Menu F
PLoS One
. 2013 Aug;
8(8):e70830.
PMID: 23951018
Insects are known to display strategies that spread the risk of encountering unfavorable conditions, thereby decreasing the extinction probability of genetic lineages in unpredictable environments. To what extent these strategies...
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Crawford B, Kribs-Zaleta C, Ambartsoumian G
Bull Math Biol
. 2013 Jun;
75(7):1051-81.
PMID: 23775044
The parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, known for causing Chagas' disease, is spread via insect vectors from the triatomine family. T. cruzi is maintained in sylvatic vector-host transmission cycles in certain parts...
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Pelosse P, Kribs-Zaleta C
J Theor Biol
. 2012 Aug;
312:133-42.
PMID: 22892441
Pathogens may use different routes of transmission to maximize their spread among host populations. Theoretical and empirical work conducted on directly transmitted diseases suggest that horizontal (i.e., through host contacts)...
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Kribs-Zaleta C, Mubayi A
J Biol Dyn
. 2012 Aug;
6:813-35.
PMID: 22877420
This study presents a continuous-time model for the sylvatic transmission dynamics of two strains of Trypanosoma cruzi enzootic in North America, in order to study the role that adaptations of...
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Kribs-Zaleta C, Jusot J, Vanhems P, Charles S
Bull Math Biol
. 2010 Sep;
73(7):1413-42.
PMID: 20811781
Nosocomial transmission of viral and bacterial infections is a major problem worldwide, affecting millions of patients (and causing hundreds of thousands of deaths) per year. Rotavirus infections affect most children...