Daniel J. Becker

University of California, San Francisco — United States

Medicine · Health Sciences

41h-index5.7kcitations308works3.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Viral Infections and Vectors(102), Zoonotic diseases and public health(75), Bat Biology and Ecology Studies(55), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(36), Rabies epidemiology and control(31)

Publications306 total

Neotropical bats as bioindicators for emerging zoonoses in Central America: A case study identifying <i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i> in bats from Belize using metagenomic next-generation sequencing
2025Open Access
Vampire bats in Belize harbor multiple <i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i> genotypes: implications for parasite transmission at the wildlife–domestic–human interface
2025Open Access
Environmental and ecological signals predict food shortages for subtropical populations of Australian flying foxes, reservoirs of Hendra virus
Biology Letters·2025Open Access
Biodiversity databases as underutilized resources for pathogen discovery: a quantitative synthesis of bat and rodent tissue collections in natural history museums
2025Open Access
Integrating expert knowledge into large language models improves performance for psychiatric reasoning and diagnosis
Psychiatry Research·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Paramyxoviruses in Old World fruit bats (Pteropodidae): An open database and synthesis of sampling effort, viral positivity, and coevolution
PLoS neglected tropical diseases·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
Ecosphere·2025Open Access
Viral epidemic potential is not uniformly distributed across the bat phylogeny
Communications Biology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Habitat and seasonal drivers of leukocyte profiles within and across Neotropical bat species
Biology Letters·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Environmental and ecological signals predict food shortages for subtropical Australian flying fox populations, reservoir of Hendra virus"
2025
Insectivores exhibit superior microbial transmission efficiency and elevated zoonotic risk by 2035 relative to rodents and bats
2025Open Access
Museum collections and machine learning guide discovery of novel coronaviruses and paramyxoviruses
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Habitat and seasonal drivers of leukocyte profiles within and across Neotropical bat species"
2025
Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Regional- and season-specific exposure to lead in a common North American songbird
2025Open Access
Understanding Climate Change Threats to Vertebrate Wildlife by Studying Ecoimmunology Across Biological Scales
Integrative and Comparative Biology·2025Open Access
Proteomic Signatures of SARS-CoV-2 Susceptibility in Mexican Free-tailed Bats and Their Application to Viral Surveillance
Integrative and Comparative Biology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Habitat and seasonal drivers of leukocyte profiles within and across Neotropical bat species
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Longitudinal impacts of habitat fragmentation on <i>Bartonella</i> and hemotropic <i>Mycoplasma</i> dynamics in vampire bats
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Diversity and transmission and zoonotic potential of microbes in true insectivores
Nature Communications·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Raina K. Plowright(19), Sonia Altizer(12), Daniel G. Streicker(11), Gregory F. Albery(8), Alex D. Washburne(8), Colin J. Carlson(7), Richard J. Hall(6), Daniel Crowley(6), Nancy B. Simmons(6), Laura M. Bergner(5), Alexandra B. Bentz(5), Alison J. Peel(4), Gábor Á. Czirják(4), Lily Cohen(4), Evan A. Eskew(4), Timothée Poisot(4), Richard Orton(4), Dmitriy V. Volokhov(4), Cecilia A. Sánchez(3), Barbara A. Han(3)