ArticleNature ecology & evolution2022
Shoaling guppies evade predation but have deadlier parasites.
Article in Nature ecology & evolution, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- MOF-Derived Cu-TiOAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Pace of life predicts parasite resistance and fecundity tolerance, but not mortality tolerance, among Trinidadian guppies,Evolution letters · 2026Article
- Host Genetics and the Skin Microbiome Independently Predict Parasite Resistance.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Host dietary niche and site location on the river continuum shape trematode (International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025Article
- Sex-dependent effects of infection on guppy reproductive fitness and offspring parasite resistance.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
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- Associating with kin selects for disease resistance and against tolerance.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Sharing fluids shapes host social networks and pathogen traits.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Ornaments indicate parasite load only if they are dynamic or parasites are contagious.Evolution letters · 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
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Abstract
Parasites exploit hosts to replicate and transmit, but overexploitation kills both host and parasite. Predators may shift this cost-benefit balance by consuming infected hosts or changing host behaviour, but the strength of these effects remains unclear. Here we use field and lab data on Trinidadian guppies and their Gyrodactylus spp. parasites to show how differential predation pressure influences parasite virulence and transmission. We use an experimentally demonstrated virulence-transmission trade-off to parametrize a mathematical model in which host shoaling (as a means of anti-predator defence), increases contact rates and selects for higher virulence. Then we validate model predictions by collecting parasites from wild, Trinidadian populations; parasites from high-predation populations were more virulent in common gardens than those from low-predation populations. Broadly, our results indicate that reduced social contact selects against parasite virulence.
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