Host-Parasite Interactions

Recent Papers

The Size, Symmetry, and Color Saturation of a Male Guppy’s Ornaments Forecast His Resistance to Parasites

Jessica F. Stephenson, Martin Stevens, Jolyon Troscianko, and Jukka Jokela

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Stephenson.html

Resistance Genes Affect How Pathogens Maintain Plant Abundance and Diversity

Simon Maccracken Stump, James H. Marden, Noelle G. Beckman, Scott A. Mangan, and Liza S. Comita

Male-Male Competition Causes Parasite-Mediated Sexual Selection for Local Adaptation

Miguel Gómez-Llano, Aaditya Narasimhan, and Erik I. Svensson

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Gomez-Llano.html

Defensive Symbiosis and the Evolution of Virulence

Paul Nelson and Georgiana May

Open Access

Deconstructing the Impact of Malaria Vector Diversity on Disease Risk

Amber Gigi Hoi, Benjamin Gilbert, and Nicole Mideo

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Hoi.html

Parasitism Risk and Infection Alter Host Dispersal

Celina B. Baines, Salma Diab, and Shannon J. McCauley

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Aug-Baines.html

Open Access

Host Transcriptional Responses to High- and Low-Virulent Avian Malaria Parasites

Elin Videvall, Vaidas Palinauskas, Gediminas Valkiūnas, and Olof Hellgren

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/June-Videvall.html

Vertical Transmission of a Nematode from Female Lizards to the Brains of Their Offspring

Nathalie Feiner, Sueli de Souza-Lima, Fátima Jorge, Soraya Naem, Fabien Aubret, Tobias Uller, and Steven A. Nadler

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Feiner.html

Individual Specialization and Multihost Epidemics: Disease Spread in Plant-Pollinator Networks

Stephen P. Ellner, Wee Hao Ng, and Christopher R. Myers

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Ellner.html

An Empirical Test of the Role of Small-Scale Transmission in Large-Scale Disease Dynamics

Joseph R. Mihaljevic, Carlos M. Polivka, Constance J. Mehmel, Chentong Li, Vanja Dukic, and Greg Dwyer

Thermal Variability and Plasticity Drive the Outcome of a Host-Pathogen Interaction

Laura V. Ferguson and Brent J. Sinclair

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Ferguson.html

Pathogens and Mutualists as Joint Drivers of Host Species Coexistence and Turnover: Implications for Plant Competition and Succession

Jiang Jiang, Karen C. Abbott, Mara Baudena, Maarten B. Eppinga, James A. Umbanhowar, and James D. Bever

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Jiang.html

Stochasticity and Infectious Disease Dynamics: Density and Weather Effects on a Fungal Insect Pathogen

Colin H. Kyle, Jiawei Liu, Molly E. Gallagher, Vanja Dukic, and Greg Dwyer

Fecundity-Longevity Trade-Off, Vertical Transmission, and Evolution of Virulence in Sterilizing Pathogens

Eva Janoušková and Luděk Berec

Can Community Structure Causally Determine Dynamics of Constituent Species? A Test Using a Host-Parasite Community

Ryan E. Langendorf and Daniel F. Doak

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Langendorf.html

Host Responses to Foreign Eggs across the Avian Visual Color Space

Daniel Hanley, Karel Gern, Mark E. Hauber, and Tomáš Grim

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

The Critical Role of Infectious Disease in Compensatory Population Growth in Response to Culling

Eleanor Tanner, Andy White, Peter W. W. Lurz, Christian Gortázar, Iratxe Díez-Delgado, and Mike Boots

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

Predicting the Thermal and Allometric Dependencies of Disease Transmission via the Metabolic Theory of Ecology

Devin Kirk, Pepijn Luijckx, Andrijana Stanic, and Martin Krkošek

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayKirk.html

Within-Host Priority Effects Systematically Alter Pathogen Coexistence
Patrick A. Clay, Kailash Dhir, Volker H. W. Rudolf, and Meghan A. Duffy
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebClay.html

Sexual Conflict and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs): Coevolution of Sexually Antagonistic Host Traits with an STI
Alison M. Wardlaw and Aneil F. Agrawal