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

Mutualism

Recent Papers

Disturbances can promote and hinder coexistence of competitors in on-going partner choice mutualisms

Benedicte Bachelot and Charlotte T. Lee

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

Coevolution Creates Complex Mosaics across Large Landscapes

Lucas D. Fernandes, Paula Lemos-Costa, Paulo R. Guimarães Jr., John N. Thompson, and Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugFernandes.html

Natural History Note, Open Access

Bimodal Pollination Systems in Andean Melastomataceae Involving Birds, Bats, and Rodents

Agnes S. Dellinger, Lisa M. Scheer, Silvia Artuso, Diana Fernández-Fernández, Francisco Sornoza, Darin S. Penneys, Raimund Tenhaken, Stefan Dötterl, and Jürg Schönenberger

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyDellinger.html

Open Access

Mutualists Stabilize the Coexistence of Congeneric Legumes

Andrew Siefert, Kenneth W. Zillig, Maren L. Friesen, and Sharon Y. Strauss

Natural History Note

Atypical Flowers Can Be as Profitable as Typical Hummingbird Flowers

Nickolas M. Waser, Paul J. CaraDonna, and Mary V. Price

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/NovWaser.html

Open Access

Coevolution Slows the Disassembly of Mutualistic Networks

Scott L. Nuismer, Bob Week, and Marcelo A. Aizen

High Gut Microbiota Diversity Provides Lower Resistance against Infection by an Intestinal Parasite in Bumblebees

Kathrin Näpflin and Paul Schmid-Hempel

Adaptive Foraging of Pollinators Can Promote Pollination of a Rare Plant Species

Gita Benadi and Robert J. Gegear

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugBenadi.html

Symposium
Shared Genes but Not Shared Genetic Variation: Legume Colonization by Two Belowground Symbionts 
Julia N. Ossler and Katy D. Heath
Blog and abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarOssler.html


Open Access
Coevolution between Mutualists and Parasites in Symbiotic Communities May Lead to the Evolution of Lower Virulence
Paul G. Nelson and Georgiana May

Sanctions, Partner Recognition, and Variation in Mutualism
Jeremy B. Yoder and Peter Tiffin
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctYoder.html

Countdown to 150, Open Access

From Lichens to the Law: Cooperation as a Theme in the Diverse Career of Roscoe Pound

Megan E. Frederickson and Judith L. Bronstein

Presidential Award Winner:
Evolutionary Assembly of Communities in Butterfly Mimicry Rings
Jahnavi Joshi, Anupama Prakash, and Krushnamegh Kunte

Reproduction

Recent Papers

Open Access

When synchrony makes the best of both worlds even better: how well do we really understand facultative sex?

Hanna Kokko

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/VP-Kokko.html

Testosterone modulates status-specific patterns of cooperation in a social network

Thomas Brandt Ryder, Roslyn Dakin, Ben J. Vernasco, Brian S. Evans, Brent M. Horton, and Ignacio T. Moore

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Ryder.html

Open Access

Deer indirectly alter the reproductive strategy and operational sex ratio of an unpalatable forest perennial

Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Christopher D. Heckel, Robert M. McElderry, and Susan Kalisz

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Bialic-Murphy.html

Between- and Within-Individual Variation of Maternal Thyroid Hormone Deposition in Wild Great Tits (Parus major)

Bin-Yan Hsu, Irene Verhagen, Phillip Gienapp, Veerle M. Darras, Marcel E. Visser, and Suvi Ruuskanen
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Hsu.html

Open Access

Queen Longevity and Fecundity Affect Conflict with Workers over Resource Inheritance in a Social Insect

Edward J. Almond, Timothy J. Huggins, Liam P. Crowther, Joel D. Parker, and Andrew F. G. Bourke

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

The Effect of Pollen Limitation on the Evolution of Mating System and Seed Size in Hermaphroditic Plants

Qiaoqiao Huang and Martin Burd

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

Open Access, Natural History Note

Anther Rubbing, a New Mechanism That Actively Promotes Selfing in Plants

Mohamed Abdelaziz, Mohammed Bakkali, José M. Gómez, Enrica Olivieri, and Francisco Perfectti

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

Open Access

Fitness Consequences of Female Alternative Reproductive Tactics in House Mice (Mus musculus domesticus)

Manuela Ferrari, Anna K. Lindholm, and Barbara König

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

Female-Biased Sex Ratios Increase Colony Survival and Reproductive Output in the Spider Anelosimus studiosus

James L. L. Lichtenstein, Ambika Kamath, Sarah Bengston, Leticia Avilés, and Jonathan N. Pruitt

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

Note

Chronological and Biological Age Predict Seasonal Reproductive Timing: An Investigation of Clutch Initiation and Telomeres in Birds of Known Age

Carolyn M. Bauer, Jessica L. Graham, Mikus Abolins-Abols, Britt J. Heidinger, Ellen D. Ketterson, and Timothy J. Greives

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

Pluck or Luck: Does Trait Variation or Chance Drive Variation in Lifetime Reproductive Success?
Robin E. Snyder and Stephen P. Ellner
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprSnyder.html

The Energetic Cost of Reproduction and Its Effect on Optimal Life-History Strategies
Asta Audzijonyte and Shane A. Richards
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctAudzijonyte.html

Mating Opportunity Increases with Synchrony of Flowering among Years More than Synchrony within Years in a Nonmasting Perennial
Amy Waananen, Gretel Kiefer, Jennifer L. Ison, and Stuart Wagenius
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/SepWaananen.html

Sex Allocation Theory for Facultatively Sexual Organisms Inhabiting Seasonal Environments: The Importance of Bet Hedging
Nina Gerber, Isobel Booksmythe, and Hanna Kokko

Adaptive Foraging of Pollinators Can Promote Pollination of a Rare Plant Species
Gita Benadi and Robert J. Gegear
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugBenadi.html

A Physiological Signature of the Cost of Reproduction Associated with Parental Care
Melinda A. Fowler and Tony D. Williams
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/DecFowler.html

Multivariate Sexual Selection on Ejaculate Traits under Sperm Competition
Rowan A. Lymbery, W. Jason Kennington, and Jonathan P. Evans
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyLymbery.html

Collector Motion Affects Particle Capture in Physical Models and in Wind Pollination
Dori McCombe and Josef D. Ackerman
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyMcCombe.html

Natural History Miscellany Note
Dispensing Pollen Via Catapult: Explosive Pollen Release in Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
Callin M. Switzer, Stacey A. Combes, and Robin Hopkins
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneSwitzer.html

Selfing Can Facilitate Transitions between Pollination Syndromes
Carolyn A. Wessinger and John K. Kelly
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayWessinger-A.html

Open Access
The Consequences of Polyandry for Sibship Structures, Distributions of Relationships and Relatedness, and Potential for Inbreeding in a Wild Population
Ryan R. Germain, Peter Arcese, and Jane M. Reid
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayGermain.html

The Behavior and Reproductive Physiology of a Solitary Progressive Provisioning Vespid Wasp: Evidence for a Solitary-Cycle Origin of Reproductive Castes
Hans C. Kelstrup, Klaus Hartfelder, Tiago Falcon Lopes, and Theresa C. Wossler

Offspring Size and Reproductive Allocation in Harvester Ants
Diane C. Wiernasz and Blaine J. Cole
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanWiernasz.html

Synthesis
Mechanisms of Assortative Mating in Speciation with Gene Flow: Connecting Theory and Empirical Research
Michael Kopp, Maria R. Servedio, Tamra C. Mendelson, Rebecca J. Safran, Rafael L. Rodríguez, Mark E. Hauber, Elizabeth C. Scordato, Laurel B. Symes, Christopher N. Balakrishnan, David M. Zonana, and G. Sander van Doorn
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanKopp-A.html

Open Access
Do Sperm Really Compete and Do Eggs Ever Have a Choice? Adult Distribution and Gamete Mixing Influence Sexual Selection, Sexual Conflict, and the Evolution of Gamete Recognition Proteins in the Sea
Don R. Levitan
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanLevitan.html