ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025
Do fungi look like macroparasites? Quantifying the patterns and mechanisms of aggregation for host-fungal parasite relationships.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Spillover dynamics and asynchronous temporal fluctuations in host density and competence drive fungal parasite persistence in multi-host, seasonal communities.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Article
- Integrating infection intensity and aggregation into the dynamics of pathogens with within-host replication.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Article
- Re-examining the drivers of variation in parasite loads across hosts in the Tallis-Leyton model.Journal of mathematical biology · 2025Article
- Do fungi look like macroparasites? Quantifying the patterns and mechanisms of aggregation for host-fungal parasite relationships.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
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Most hosts contain few parasites, whereas few hosts contain many. This pattern, known as aggregation, is well-documented in macroparasites where parasite intensity distribution among hosts affects host-parasite dynamics. Infection intensity also drives fungal disease dynamics, but we lack a basic understanding of host-fungal aggregation patterns, how they compare with macroparasites and if they reflect biological processes. To begin addressing these gaps, we characterized aggregation of the fungal pathogen
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