ArticlePeerJ2022
Identifying sources of variation in parasite aggregation.
Article in PeerJ, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Do fungi look like macroparasites? Quantifying the patterns and mechanisms of aggregation for host-fungal parasite relationships.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Do fungi look like macroparasites? Quantifying the patterns and mechanisms of aggregation for host-fungal parasite relationships.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Parasite infestation patterns differ between ticks and chigger mites on two rodent host species in Taiwan.Experimental & applied acarology · 2024Article
- A Five-Year Study on Infestation and Abundance of Bat Flies (Hippoboscoidea: Streblidae) Under Severe Dry Season Conditions in the Tropical Dry Forest of Yucatan, Mexico.Neotropical entomology · 2024Article
- Body size-dependent effects on the distribution patterns of phoretic mite species assemblages onEcology and evolution · 2023Article
- On Spatiotemporal Overdispersion and Macroparasite Accumulation in Hosts Leading to Aggregation: A Quantitative Framework.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Aggregation of macroparasites among hosts is a near-universal pattern, and has important consequences for the stability of host-parasite associations and the impacts of disease. Identifying which potential drivers are contributing to levels of aggregation observed in parasite-host associations is challenging, particularly for observational studies. We apply beta regressions in a Bayesian framework to determine predictors of aggregation, quantified using Poulin's index of discrepancy (
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