ArticleAnnual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics2022
Evolution and Ecology of Parasite Avoidance.
Article in Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Differences in Parasite Infection Status and Behavior Between a Clonal Fish and Her Sexually Reproducing Heterospecifics.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Defense against parasites covaries with reproductive timing, not with resistance.PLoS pathogens · 2026Article
- Parasite defense covaries with reproductive timing, not with resistance.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Host avoidance and resistance vary independently and are specific to parasite genotype.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Avoidance of infection.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Insect immunity in the Anthropocene.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Sex-specific immunocompetence: resistance and tolerance can both be futile but not under the same circumstances.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Evolution of resistance and disease tolerance mechanisms to oral bacterial infection inOpen biology · 2025Article
- Divergent age-related changes in parasite infection occur independently of behaviour and demography in a wild ungulate.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Taking cues from ecological and evolutionary theories to expand the landscape of disgust.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Genetic Variation in Trophic Avoidance Behaviour Shows Fruit Flies are Generally Attracted to Bacterial Substrates.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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- Behave yourself: effects of exogenous-glucocorticoid exposure on larval amphibian anti-parasite behaviour and physiology.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Genetic variation in parasite avoidance, yet no evidence for constitutive fitness costs.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2024Article
- Neurobiology of Pathogen Avoidance and Mate Choice: Current and Future Directions.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Into the danger zone: How the within-host distribution of parasites controls virulence.Ecology letters · 2024Article
- How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
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Abstract
Parasite avoidance is a host defense that reduces the contact rate with parasites. We investigate avoidance as a primary driver of variation among individuals in the risk of parasitism and the evolution of host-parasite interactions. To bridge mechanistic and taxonomic divides, we define and categorize avoidance by its function and position in the sequence of host defenses. We also examine the role of avoidance in limiting epidemics and evaluate evidence for the processes that drive its evolution. Throughout, we highlight important directions to advance our conceptual and theoretical understanding of the role of avoidance in host-parasite interactions. We emphasize the need to test assumptions and quantify the effect of avoidance independent of other defenses. Importantly, many open questions may be most tractable in host systems that have not been the focus of traditional behavioral avoidance research, such as plants and invertebrates.
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