ArticleEcology2020
Scale-dependent effects of host patch traits on species composition in a stickleback parasite metacommunity.
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- Rates of Evolution Differ Between Cell Types Identified by Single-Cell RNAseq in Threespine Stickleback.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infection and Immunity in Experimentally Founded Lake Populations of Threespine Stickleback.The American naturalist · 2026Article
- Rapid genome-wide introgression reveals fitness advantage of immigrant genotypes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer.Parasitology · 2025Article
- Parasite spillover rather than niche expansion explains infection of host brain by diplostomid eye flukes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- The Dominance of Coinfecting Parasites' Indirect Genetic Effects on Host Traits.The American naturalist · 2024Article
- Destabilized host-parasite dynamics in newly founded populations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- Host and parasite identity interact in scale-dependent fashion to determine parasite community structure.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Host-parasite interactions in perpetual darkness: Macroparasite diversity in the cavefishZoological research · 2023Article
- Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Microevolution of the Stickleback Immune System.Genome biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Factors at multiple scales drive parasite community structure.The Journal of animal ecology · 2023Article
- Altered within- and between-host transmission under coinfection underpin parasite co-occurrence patterns in the wild.Evolutionary ecology · 2023Article
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- Evolutionary gain and loss of a pathological immune response to parasitism.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Between-population differences in constitutive and infection-induced gene expression in threespine stickleback.Molecular ecology · 2021Article
- Sick of eating: Eco-evo-immuno dynamics of predators and their trophically acquired parasites.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2021Article
- Male and female reproductive fitness costs of an immune response in natural populationsEvolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2021Article
- What evolutionary processes maintain MHC IIꞵ diversity within and among populations of stickleback?Molecular ecology · 2021Article
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A core goal of ecology is to understand the abiotic and biotic variables that regulate species distributions and community composition. A major obstacle is that the rules governing species distributions can change with spatial scale. Here, we illustrate this point using data from a spatially nested metacommunity of parasites infecting a metapopulation of threespine stickleback fish from 34 lakes on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Like most parasite metacommunities, the composition of stickleback parasites differs among host individuals within each host population, and differs between host populations. The distribution of each parasite taxon depends, to varying degrees, on individual host traits (e.g., mass, diet) and on host-population characteristics (e.g., lake size, mean host mass, mean diet). However, in most cases in this data set, a given parasite was regulated by different factors at the host-individual and host-population scales, leading to scale-dependent patterns of parasite-species co-occurrence.
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