ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017
Host heterogeneity affects both parasite transmission to and fitness on subsequent hosts.
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- Functional immunogenetic variation, rather than local adaptation, predicts ectoparasite infection intensity in a model fish species.Molecular ecology · 2021Article
- Parasite-induced plasticity in host social behaviour depends on sex and susceptibility.Biology letters · 2019Article
- Linked within-host and between-host models and data for infectious diseases: a systematic review.PeerJ · 2019Article
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Abstract
Infectious disease dynamics depend on the speed, number and fitness of parasites transmitting from infected hosts ('donors') to parasite-naive 'recipients'. Donor heterogeneity likely affects these three parameters, and may arise from variation between donors in traits including: (i) infection load, (ii) resistance, (iii) stage of infection, and (iv) previous experience of transmission. We used the Trinidadian guppy,
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