ArticleBiology letters2019
Parasite-induced plasticity in host social behaviour depends on sex and susceptibility.
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- Sharing fluids shapes host social networks and pathogen traits.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Sex-biased infections scale to population impacts for an emerging wildlife disease.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Skin bacterial microbiome diversity predicts lower activity levels in female, but not male, guppies,Biology letters · 2022Article
- Predation shifts coevolution toward higher host contact rate and parasite virulence.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Bidirectional interactions between host social behaviour and parasites arise through ecological and evolutionary processes.Parasitology · 2021Article
- Dissecting genetic and sex-specific sources of host heterogeneity in pathogen shedding and spread.PLoS pathogens · 2021Article
- The role of social structure and dynamics in the maintenance of endemic disease.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2021Review
- Genotype and sex-based host variation in behaviour and susceptibility drives population disease dynamics.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Understanding the effects of parasites on host behaviour, of host behaviour on parasite infection, and the reciprocal interactions between these processes is vital to improving our understanding of animal behaviour and disease dynamics. However, behaviour and parasite infection are both highly variable within and between individual hosts, and how this variation affects behaviour-parasite feedbacks is poorly understood. For example, it is unclear how an individual's behaviour before infection might change once it becomes infected, or as the infection progresses, and how these changes depend on the host's parasite susceptibility. Here, using the guppy,
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