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

Climate Change

Recent Papers

Caching in or Falling Back at the Sevilleta: The Effects of Body Size and Seasonal Uncertainty on Desert Rodent Foraging

Justin D. Yeakel, Uttam Bhat, and Seth D. Newsome

https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/July-Yeakel.html

Free Access

Quantifying the Contribution of Habitats and Pathways to a Spatially Structured Population Facing Environmental Change

Christine Sample, Joanna A. Bieri, Benjamin Allen, Yulia Dementieva, Alyssa Carson, Connor Higgins, Sadie Piatt, Shirley Qiu, Summer Stafford, Brady J. Mattsson, Darius J. Semmens, Jay E. Diffendorfer, and Wayne E. Thogmartin

https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/July-Sample.html

Climate Change and Thermoregulatory Consequences of Activity Time in Mammals

Timothy C. Bonebrake, Enrico L. Rezende, and Francisco Bozinovic

https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/July-Bonebrake.html

Dispersal Increases the Resilience of Tropical Savanna and Forest Distributions

Nikunj Goel, Vishwesha Guttal, Simon A. Levin, and A. Carla Staver

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

Does Evolutionary History Correlate with Contemporary Extinction Risk by Influencing Range Size Dynamics?

Andrew J. Tanentzap, Javier Igea, Matthew G. Johnston, and Matthew J. Larcombe

Blog https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Tanentzap.html

Spatial Population Structure Determines Extinction Risk in Climate-Induced Range Shifts

Christopher Weiss-Lehman and Allison K. Shaw

https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Weiss-Lehman.html

Decreased Precipitation Predictability Negatively Affects Population Growth through Differences in Adult Survival

Guillem Masó, Arpat Ozgul, and Patrick S. Fitze

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Maso.html

Meta-analysis Shows That Rapid Phenotypic Change in Angiosperms in Response to Environmental Change Is Followed by Stasis

Lucas D. Gorné and Sandra Díaz

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Gorne.html

Climate Warming, Resource Availability, and the Metabolic Meltdown of Ectotherms

Raymond B. Huey and Joel G. Kingsolver

Free Access; Special Feature on Maladaptation

Maladapted Prey Subsidize Predators and Facilitate Range Expansion

Mark C. Urban, Alice Scarpa, Justin M. J. Travis, and Greta Bocedi

https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Urban.html

Note, Open Access

Pollen on Stigmas of Herbarium Specimens: A Window into the Impacts of a Century of Environmental Disturbance on Pollen Transfer

Anna L. Johnson, María Rebolleda-Gómez, and Tia-Lynn Ashman

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

Intraspecific Variation in Worker Body Size Makes North American Bumble Bees (Bombus spp.) Less Susceptible to Decline

Matthew W. Austin and Aimee S. Dunlap

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

Antagonistic Responses of Exposure to Sublethal Temperatures: Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity Coincides with a Reduction in Organismal Performance

Anthony L. Gilbert and Donald B. Miles

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

Special Feature on Maladaptation

Phenotypic Plasticity and Local Adaptation in a Wild Hibernator Evaluated through Reciprocal Translocation

Jeffrey E. Lane, Zenon J. Czenze, Rachel Findlay-Robinson, and Erin Bayne

Special Feature on Maladaptation

Lagging Adaptation to Climate Supersedes Local Adaptation to Herbivory in an Annual Monkeyflower

Nicholas J. Kooyers, Jack M. Colicchio, Anna B. Greenlee, Erin Patterson, Neal T. Handloser, and Benjamin K. Blackman

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugKooyers.html

Special Feature on Maladaptation, Open Access

Maladaptive Shifts in Life History in a Changing Environment

Olivier Cotto, Linnea Sandell, Luis-Miguel Chevin, and Ophélie Ronce

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugCotto.html

Species’ Range Dynamics Affect the Evolution of Spatial Variation in Plasticity under Environmental Change

Max Schmid, Ramon Dallo, and Frédéric Guillaume

Predicting Habitat Choice after Rapid Environmental Change

Philip H. Crowley, Pete C. Trimmer, Orr Spiegel, Sean M. Ehlman, William S. Cuello, and Andrew Sih

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayCrowley.html

Prey Responses to Exotic Predators: Effects of Old Risks and New Cues

Sean M. Ehlman, Pete C. Trimmer, and Andrew Sih

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprEhlman.html

Note

Shifting Vital Rate Correlations Alter Predicted Population Responses to Increasingly Variable Environments

David T. Iles, Robert F. Rockwell, and David N. Koons

Increased Temperature Disrupts the Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning Relationship

Elodie C. Parain, Rudolf P. Rohr, Sarah M. Gray, and Louis-Félix Bersier

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebParain.html

Niches

Recent Papers 

Tolerance of novel toxins through generalized mechanisms: simulating gradual host shifts of butterflies

Kristin L Sikkink, Reilly Hostager, Megan E Kobiela, Nathan Fremling, Katherine Johnston, Amod Zambre, and Emilie C. Snell-Rood

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Sikkink.html

Synthesis

Context dependence of local adaptation to abiotic and biotic environments: a quantitative and qualitative synthesis

Ryan Briscoe Runquist, Amanda J Gorton, Jeremy B Yoder, Nicholas J Deacon, Jake J Grossman, Shan Kothari, Marta P Lyons, Seema N. Sheth, Peter Tiffin, and David A. Moeller

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Briscoe-Runquist.html

Synthesis

Local adaptation to biotic interactions: a meta-analysis across latitudes

Anna Hargreaves, Rachel M Germain, Megan Bontrager, Joshua Persi, and Amy L Angert

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Hargreaves.html

The Evolution of Immigration Strategies Facilitates Niche Expansion by Divergent Adaptation in a Structured Metapopulation Model

Éva Kisdi, Helene C. Weigang, and Mats Gyllenberg

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Kisdi.html

Free Access

Niche Construction Affects the Variability and Strength of Natural Selection

Andrew D. Clark Dominik Deffner Kevin Laland John Odling-Smee and John Endler

Blurb and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Clark.html

Free Access

Patch Size as a Niche Dimension: Aquatic Insects Behaviorally Partition Enemy-Free Space across Gradients of Patch Size

William J. Resetarits Jr., Matthew R. Pintar, Jason R. Bohenek, and Tyler M. Breech

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Resetarits.html

A Grinnellian Niche Perspective on Species-Area Relationships

Jorge Soberón

Blurb and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Soberon.html

On the Consequences of the Interdependence of Stabilizing and Equalizing Mechanisms

Chuliang Song, György Barabás, and Serguei Saavedra

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Song.html

Note, Open Access

Omnivory in Bees: Elevated Trophic Positions among All Major Bee Families

Shawn A. Steffan, Prarthana S. Dharampal, Bryan N. Danforth, Hannah R. Gaines-Day, Yuko Takizawa, and Yoshito Chikaraishi

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Steffan.html

Pulsed Immigration Events Can Facilitate Adaptation to Harsh Sink Environments

James H. Peniston, Michael Barfield, and Robert D. Holt

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Peniston.html

Open Access

Ecological Release of the Anna’s Hummingbird during a Northern Range Expansion

C. J. Battey

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Battey.html

Grow Where You Thrive, or Where Only You Can Survive? An Analysis of Performance Curve Evolution in a Clade with Diverse Habitat Affinities

Silas B. Tittes, Joseph F. Walker, Lorena Torres-Martínez, and Nancy C. Emery

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprTittes.html

American Society of Naturalists Presidential Address

The Snail’s Charm

Kathleen Donohue

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebDonohue.html

The Role of Pleiotropy in the Evolutionary Maintenance of Positive Niche Construction
Rebecca H. Chisholm, Brian D. Connelly, Benjamin Kerr, and Mark M. Tanaka
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyChisholm-A.html

Frequency Dependence and Ecological Drift Shape Coexistence of Species with Similar Niches
Erik I. Svensson, Miguel A. Gómez-Llano, Anais Rivas Torres, and Hanna M. Bensch
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneSvensson.html

Testing Range-Limit Hypotheses Using Range-Wide Habitat Suitability and Occupancy for the Scarlet Monkeyflower (Erythranthe cardinalis)
Amy L. Angert, Matthew Bayly, Seema N. Sheth, and John R. Paul
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarAngert-A.html

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Thermal Niche Partitioning
Daniel J. Smith and Priyanga Amarasekare
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarSmith-A.html

Life-History Traits Evolved Jointly with Climatic Niche and Disturbance Regime in the Genus Leucadendron (Proteaceae)
Jeanne Tonnabel, Frank M. Schurr, Florian Boucher, Wilfried Thuiller, Julien Renaud, Emmanuel J. P. Douzery, and Ophélie Ronce
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebTonnabel-A.html

Toward a Periodic Table of Niches, or Exploring the Lizard Niche Hypervolume
Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Nicolás Pelegrin, Daniel B. Fitzgerald, and Kirk O. Winemiller
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/NovPianka.html

Microhabitat and Climatic Niche Change Explain Patterns of Diversification among Frog Families
Daniel S. Moen and John J. Wiens
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyMoen.html

Open Access
A Parent-Offspring Trade-Off Limits the Evolution of an Ontogenetic Niche Shift
Hanna ten Brink and André M. de Roos
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyTenBrink.html