Host/Pathogen Interactions

Recent Papers

Ecological and Evolutionary Stabilities of Biotrophism, Necrotrophism, and Saprotrophism

Sayaki U. Suzuki and Akira Sasaki

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulySuzuki.html

Trait-Based Modeling of Multihost Pathogen Transmission: Plant-Pollinator Networks

Lauren L. Truitt, Scott H. McArt, Andrew H. Vaughn, and Stephen P. Ellner

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneTruitt.html

Within-Host Priority Effects Systematically Alter Pathogen Coexistence

Patrick A. Clay, Kailash Dhir, Volker H. W. Rudolf, and Meghan A. Duffy

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebClay.html

Multiscale Immune Selection and the Transmission-Diversity Feedback in Antigenically Diverse Pathogen Systems

Thomas Holding, John Joseph Valletta, and Mario Recker

Host Dispersal Responses to Resource Supplementation Determine Pathogen Spread in Wildlife Metapopulations

Daniel J. Becker, Celine E. Snedden, Sonia Altizer, and Richard J. Hall

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctBecker.html

Open Access

Coinfection Timing Drives Host Population Dynamics through Changes in Virulence

Katherine M. Marchetto and Alison G. Power

Open Access

The Role of the Environment in the Evolution of Tolerance and Resistance to a Pathogen

Michael Zeller and Jacob C. Koella

Cannibalism and infectious disease: friends or foes?

Benjamin G. Van Allen, Forrest P. Dillemuth, Andrew J. Flick, Matthew J. Faldyn, David R. Clark, Volker H. W. Rudolf, and Bret D. Elderd
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/SepVanAllen.html

The Role of the Environment in the Evolution of Tolerance and Resistance to a Pathogen
Michael Zeller and Jacob C. Koella

Open Access
Quantitative Genetic Variation in, and Environmental Effects on, Pathogen Resistance and Temperature-Dependent Disease Severity in a Wild Trout
Paul Vincent Debes, Riho Gross, and Anti Vasemägi

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugDebes.html

Open Access
Population Density, Not Host Competence, Drives Patterns of Disease in an Invaded Community
Catherine L. Searle, Michael H. Cortez, Katherine K. Hunsberger, Dylan C. Grippi, Isabella A. Oleksy, Clara L. Shaw, Solanus B. de la Serna, Chloe L. Lash, Kailash L. Dhir, and Meghan A. Duffy