title: Bridging taxonomic and disciplinary divides in infectious disease.
abstract: Pathogens traverse disciplinary and taxonomic boundaries, yet infectious disease research occurs in many separate disciplines including plant pathology, veterinary and human medicine, and ecological and evolutionary sciences. These disciplines have different traditions, goals, and terminology, creating gaps in communication.  Bridging these disciplinary and taxonomic gaps promises novel insights and important synergistic advances in control of infectious disease.  An approach integrated across the plant-animal divide would advance our understanding of disease by quantifying critical processes including transmission, community interactions, pathogen evolution, and complexity at multiple spatial and temporal scales.  These advances require more substantial investment in basic disease research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA. borer@umn.edu
authors.forename: Elizabeth T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Borer
authors.forename: Janis
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Antonovics
authors.forename: Linda L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Kinkel
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Hudson
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Daszak
authors.forename: Matthew J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Ferrari
authors.forename: Karen A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Garrett
authors.forename: Colin R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Parrish
authors.forename: Andrew F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Read
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Rizzo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000145:classification* / Q000635:transmission; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004199:Disease Vectors; D017753:Ecosystem; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D010944:Plants / Q000382:microbiology
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