ArticleEcology letters2017
Disease spread in age structured populations with maternal age effects.
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- Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timing.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Social interactions do not affect mycoplasma infection in griffon vultures.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- The Evolution of the Age of Onset of Resistance to Infectious Disease.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2023Article
- The evolution of age-specific resistance to infectious disease.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Can disease resistance evolve independently at different ages? Genetic variation in age-dependent resistance to disease in three wild plant species.The Journal of ecology · 2022Article
- Parasite resistance and parasite tolerance: insights into transgenerational immune priming in an invertebrate host.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Coevolutionary theory of hosts and parasites.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2022Review
- DNA methylation differs extensively between strains of the same geographical origin and changes with age in Daphnia magna.Epigenetics & chromatin · 2021Article
- The diversity of maternal-age effects upon pre-adult survival across animal species.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Genome-wide methylation is modified by caloric restriction in Daphnia magna.BMC genomics · 2019Article
- The evolution of juvenile susceptibility to infectious disease.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Testing hypotheses for maternal effects in Daphnia magna.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Fundamental ecological processes, such as extrinsic mortality, determine population age structure. This influences disease spread when individuals of different ages differ in susceptibility or when maternal age determines offspring susceptibility. We show that Daphnia magna offspring born to young mothers are more susceptible than those born to older mothers, and consider this alongside previous observations that susceptibility declines with age in this system. We used a susceptible-infected compartmental model to investigate how age-specific susceptibility and maternal age effects on offspring susceptibility interact with demographic factors affecting disease spread. Our results show a scenario where an increase in extrinsic mortality drives an increase in transmission potential. Thus, we identify a realistic context in which age effects and maternal effects produce conditions favouring disease transmission.
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