ArticleInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife2019
Quantitative genetics of gastrointestinal strongyle burden and associated body condition in feral horses.
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- Inferring the energy cost of resistance to parasitic infection and its link to a trade-off.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Mixed strongyle parasite infections vary across host age and space in a population of feral horses.Parasitology · 2024Article
- The cost of host genetic resistance on body condition: Evidence from divergently selected sheep.Evolutionary applications · 2022Article
- Targeted genome-wide SNP genotyping in feral horses using non-invasive fecal swabs.Conservation genetics resources · 2022Article
- Genetic × environment variation in sheep lines bred for divergent resistance to strongyle infection.Evolutionary applications · 2021Article
- Integrative biology defines novel biomarkers of resistance to strongylid infection in horses.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Not playing by the rules: Unusual patterns in the epidemiology of parasites in a natural population of feral horses (International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2020Article
- Parasites in Horses Kept in A 2.5 Year-Round Grazing System in Nordic Conditions without Supplementary Feeding.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Variability in host resistance or tolerance to parasites is nearly ubiquitous, and is of key significance in understanding the evolutionary processes shaping host-parasite interactions. While ample research has been conducted on the genetics of parasite burden in livestock, relatively little has been done in free-living populations. Here, we investigate the sources of (co)variation in strongyle nematode faecal egg count (FEC) and body condition in Sable Island horses, a feral population in which parasite burden has previously been shown to negatively correlate with body condition. We used the quantitative genetic "animal model" to understand the sources of (co)variation in these traits, and tested for impacts of an important spatial gradient in habitat quality on the parameter estimates. Although FEC is significantly heritable (
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