ArticleBiology letters2021
Disease tolerance alters host competence in a wild songbird.
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- Pathogen priming alters host transmission potential and predictors of transmissibility in a wild songbird species.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Links between Innate and Adaptive Immunity Can Favor Evolutionary Persistence of Immunopathology.Integrative and comparative biology · 2024Article
- Prior exposure to pathogens augments host heterogeneity in susceptibility and has key epidemiological consequences.PLoS pathogens · 2024Article
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- Let's stick together: Infection enhances preferences for social grouping in a songbird species.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Rapid adaptation to a novel pathogen through disease tolerance in a wild songbird.PLoS pathogens · 2023Article
- High virulence is associated with pathogen spreadability in a songbird-bacterial system.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Disease tolerance alters host competence in a wild songbird.Biology letters · 2021Article
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Abstract
Individuals can express a range of disease phenotypes during infection, with important implications for epidemics. Tolerance, in particular, is a host response that minimizes the per-pathogen fitness costs of infection. Because tolerant hosts show milder clinical signs and higher survival, despite similar pathogen burdens, their potential for prolonged pathogen shedding may facilitate the spread of pathogens. To test this, we simulated outbreaks of mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in house finches, asking how the speed of transmission varied with tissue-specific and behavioural components of tolerance, milder conjunctivitis and anorexia for a given pathogen load, respectively. Because tissue-specific tolerance hinders pathogen deposition onto bird feeders, important transmission hubs, we predicted it would slow transmission. Because behavioural tolerance should increase interactions with bird feeders, we predicted it would speed transmission. Our findings supported these predictions, suggesting that variation in tolerance could help identify individuals most likely to transmit pathogens.
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