ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2018
The energetic cost of parasitism in a wild population.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Subtle stressors-Strong responses. Consistent negative effects of avian blood parasites on phenotypic and demographic traits across songbirds.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Pooled it
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- Hemoparasites in Wild Birds: A Systematic Review of Their Ecology and Clinical Implications.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Pathogen-induced alterations in fine-scale movement behaviour predict impaired reproductive success.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Crossed effects of helminth infection and lead exposure on fitness: An experimental study in feral pigeons (Columba livia).The Journal of animal ecology · 2024Article
- Sick without signs. Subclinical infections reduce local movements, alter habitat selection, and cause demographic shifts.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Survival costs of reproduction are independent of energy costs in a seabird, the pelagic cormorant.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- The social microbiome: gut microbiome diversity and abundance are negatively associated with sociality in a wild mammal.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Chigger mite (Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Parasite effects on receivers in animal communication: Hidden impacts on behavior, ecology, and evolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Experimental evidence of parasite-induced behavioural alterations modulated by food availability in wild capuchin monkeys.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Experimental removal of nematode parasites increases growth, sprint speed, and mating success in brown anole lizards.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2022Article
- Beyond illness: Variation in haemosporidian load explains differences in vocal performance in a songbird.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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- No evidence for fitness signatures consistent with increasing trophic mismatch over 30 years in a population of European shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis.The Journal of animal ecology · 2021Article
- Adaptations, life-history traits and ecological mechanisms of parasites to survive extremes and environmental unpredictability in the face of climate change.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2020Article
- Interactions between Environmental Contaminants and Gastrointestinal Parasites: Novel Insights from an Integrative Approach in a Marine Predator.Environmental science & technology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Parasites have profound fitness effects on their hosts, yet these are often sub-lethal, making them difficult to understand and quantify. A principal sub-lethal mechanism that reduces fitness is parasite-induced increase in energetic costs of specific behaviours, potentially resulting in changes to time and energy budgets. However, quantifying the influence of parasites on these costs has not been undertaken in free-living animals. We used accelerometers to estimate energy expenditure on flying, diving and resting, in relation to a natural gradient of endo-parasite loads in a wild population of European shags
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