Facilitative priority effects drive parasite assembly under coinfection

FW Halliday, RM Penczykowski, B Barrès… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Host individuals are often coinfected with diverse parasite assemblages, resulting in
complex interactions among parasites within hosts. Within hosts, priority effects occur when …

Parasite diversity and coinfection determine pathogen infection success and host fitness

PTJ Johnson, JT Hoverman - Proceedings of the National …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
While the importance of changes in host biodiversity for disease risk continues to gain
empirical support, the influence of natural variation in parasite diversity on epidemiological …

Priority effects within coinfected hosts can drive unexpected population‐scale patterns of parasite prevalence

PA Clay, MH Cortez, MA Duffy, VHW Rudolf - Oikos, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Organisms are frequently coinfected by multiple parasite strains and species, and
interactions between parasites within hosts are known to influence parasite prevalence and …

Predators and patterns of within-host growth can mediate both among-host competition and evolution of transmission potential of parasites

SKJR Auld, SR Hall, J Housley Ochs… - The American …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Parasite prevalence shows tremendous spatiotemporal variation. Theory indicates that this
variation might stem from life-history characteristics of parasites and key ecological factors …

Effect of spatial connectivity on host resistance in a highly fragmented natural pathosystem

LM Höckerstedt, JP Siren… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Both theory and experimental evolution studies predict migration to influence the outcome of
antagonistic coevolution between hosts and their parasites, with higher migration rates …

Linking host traits, interactions with competitors and disease: mechanistic foundations for disease dilution

AT Strauss, AM Bowling, MA Duffy… - Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The size of disease epidemics remains difficult to predict, especially when parasites interact
with multiple species. Traits of focal hosts like susceptibility could directly predict epidemic …

The impact of coinfection dynamics on host competition and coexistence

FH Rovenolt, AT Tate - The American Naturalist, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Parasites can mediate competition among host species in an ecological community by
differentially affecting key parameters that normally give one species a competitive edge. In …

[HTML][HTML] Cooperation and conflict in host manipulation: interactions among macro-parasites and micro-organisms

F Cézilly, MJ Perrot-Minnot, T Rigaud - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Several parasite species are known to manipulate the phenotype of their hosts in ways that
enhance their own transmission. Co-occurrence of manipulative parasites, belonging to the …

Parasite consumption and host interference can inhibit disease spread in dense populations

DJ Civitello, S Pearsall, MA Duffy, SR Hall - Ecology Letters, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Disease dynamics hinge on parasite transmission among hosts. However, canonical models
for transmission often fit data poorly, limiting predictive ability. One solution involves building …

Parasite competition hidden by correlated coinfection: using surveys and experiments to understand parasite interactions

PTJ Johnson, ID Buller - Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Within most free‐living species exists a cryptic community of interacting parasites. By
combining multiscale field data with manipulative experiments, we evaluated patterns of …