Publications

Research publications (newest to oldest)
  1. Kettenburg, G., … E. Cornelius Ruhs, et al. Co-speciation and host-switching drives diversity of picornaviruses and sapoviruses in Malagasy fruit bats. Scientific Reports. In press. Preprint available.
  2. Rekedal, M.S., E. Cornelius Ruhs… C.E. Brook. Serologic evidence of orthomarburgviruses and an orthoebolavirus in fruigivorous Malagasy bats. One Health Outlook. 7:55.
  3. Strom, S., B. Wojcik, G. Dehnert, E. Cornelius Ruhs. 2025. Longitudinal trends of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in nestling bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) from Wisconsin. Environmental Research 276: 121468.
  4. Milusich, E.*, E. Cornelius Ruhs, J. Gilbert, J. Hua, and G.K. Dehnert. 2025. Accumulation of PFAS in maple sap across the Ceded Territories. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. doi: 10.1007/s11356-025-36308-4.
  5. McMinds, R., R. Jiang, S. Adapa, E. Cornelius Ruhs, R.A. Munds, J. Leiding, C.J. Downs, L.B. Martin. 2024. Bacterial sepsis triggers stronger transcriptomic responses in larger primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B..​ 10.1098/rspb/2024.0535.
  6. Cornelius Ruhs, E., Wan Ni Chia, Randy Foo, Alison J. Peel, Yimei Li, H. Benjamin Carman, Aaron T. Irving, Linfa Wang, C. E. Brook. 2023. Applications of PhIP-seq technology to broad serological profiling of bat reservoirs for emerging zoonoses. Frontiers in Public Health. doi: fpubh.2023.1212018.
  7. Anton, B., E. Cornelius Ruhs, and G. Dehnert. 2023. Elucidating the effects of acute and chronic exposure to 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid on fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) innate immunity. Aquatic Toxicology. 260(106571).
  8. ​Hofmeister, E.K., E. Cornelius Ruhs, L. Fortini, M. Hopkins, L. Jones, K. Lafferty, J. Sleeman, O. LeDee. 2022. Potential directions to manage wildlife health in climate change: Outcome of a workshop. EcoHealth. doi: 10.1007/s10393-022-01604-9.
  9. Martin, L.B., E. Cornelius Ruhs, S. Oakey, C.J. Downs. 2022. Leukocyte allometries in birds are not affected by captivity. Journal of Experimental Zoology - Part A. doi: 10.1002/jez.2591. 
  10. ​Davidson, S. and E. Cornelius Ruhs. 2021. Understanding the dynamics of Arctic migrations in a changing world. Animal Migration 8: 56-64.
  11. Cornelius Ruhs E,  O.P. Love, L. Drainville, and F. Vézina. 2021. No common pesticides detected in snow buntings migrating across a   farmland landscape. ​Avian Conservation and Ecology: 16(2): 26.
  12. Cornelius Ruhs E*, D.J Becker*., S. Oakey, O. Ogunsina, M. Brock Fenton, N.B. Simmons, L.B. Martin, C. Downs. 2021. Body size shapes immune cell proportions in birds and terrestrial mammals, but not bats. Journal of Experimental Biology: 224(13).
  13. Cornelius Ruhs, E., L.B. Martin, C. Downs. The impacts of body mass on immune cell concentrations in birds. 2020. Proceedings B.​ 10.1098.
  14. Jimenez, A.G, Cornelius Ruhs E, K. Tobin†, K. Anderson† and F. Vézina. 2020. Consequences of being phenotypically mismatched with the environment: no  evidence of oxidative stress in cold and warm acclimated birds facing a cold spell. Journal of Experimental Biology. 223.
  15. F. Vézina, Cornelius Ruhs, E., E. O’Connor, and A.G. Jimenez. 2020. Consequences of being phenotypically mismatched with the environment: rapid muscle ultrastructural changes in cold shocked black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). American Journal of Physiology:Regulatory, Integrative and  Comparative Physiology. 318: R274-R283.
  16. Cornelius Ruhs, E., F. Vézina, M. Walker and W. Karasov. 2019. Who pays the bill? The effects of increased parental workload on parental and nestling condition. Journal of Ornithology 161: 275-288.
  17. Cornelius Ruhs, E., D. Borden, E. Pitman and T. Dallas. 2019. Do feather traits convey information about bird condition during fall migration? The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 131: 693-701.
  18. Cornelius Ruhs, E., F. Vézina and W. Karasov. 2018. Physiological and immune responses of free-living, temperate birds provided a gradient of food supplementation. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, special issue on Ecoimmunology.
  19. Cornelius, E.A., F. Vèzina, L. Regimbald, F. Hallot, M. Petit, O. Love and W. Karasov. 2017. Chickadees faced with unpredictable food increase fat reserves but certain components of their immune system decline. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 90(2): 190-200.​​
  20. Dallas, T. and E.A. Cornelius. 2015. Co-extinction in a host-parasite network: identifying key hosts for network stability. Nature Scientific Reports 5, 13185; doi: 10.1038/srep13185.
  21. Cornelius, E.A., A.K. Davis, S.M. Altizer. 2014. How important are hemoparasites to migratory songbirds? Evaluating physiological measures and infection status in three Neotropical migrants during stopover. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.
  22. Owen, J.C., E.A. Cornelius, D.A. Arsnoe, and M.C. Garvin. 2013. Leukocyte response to Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis Encephalitis Virus in a wild passerine bird. Avian Diseases
  23. Davis, A.K. and E.A. Cornelius. 2013. Do infections lead to higher feather mite loads in birds? A test with mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in house finches.​ The Auk
  24. Davis, A.K., E.A. Cornelius and D. Cox.  2013. Tachinid parasitism in adult horned passalus beetles (Odontotaenius disjunctus) at the Wormsloe Historic Site, Savannah, GA. Journal of Entomological Science.
Published introductions​
  1. Davis, A.K., and E. Cornelius Ruhs. 2019. A themed collection of research articles focused on stress physiology of bird migration. Animal Migration (not peer reviewed).
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Teaching publications/case studies
  1. Cornelius Ruhs, E. and C.J. Downs. Case Study: A delicate balance: resource allocation, immunity and disease in birds. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science. October 18, 2021.​
In the works
  1. Cornelius Ruhs, E., K. McFerrin .. C.E. Brook. Rapid GIT transit time in volant vertebrates, with implications for convergence in microbiome composition. Submitted. Preprint available: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.09.607319v1
  2. Cornelius Ruhs, E. .. C.E. Brook. Quantifying the seasonal reproductive cycle in three species of Malagasy fruit bats with implications for pathogen and population dynamics. Submitted. Preprint available.
  3. Milusich, E. E., E. Cornelius Ruhs, J. Gilbert, J. Hua, and G.K. Dehnert. Accumulation of PFAS in maple sap across the Ceded Territories. Submitted.
  4. Riccardi, A., Fake, K. ….. E. Cornelius Ruhs. Impacts of urbanization on the physiology of American Robins (Turdus migratorus) in Chicagoland. In prep.