Although research has focused on density‐dependent responses of hosts to single‐parasite
infections, hosts are exposed to numerous parasites simultaneously under natural …

Few hosts have many parasites while many hosts have few parasites. This axiom of
macroparasite aggregation is so pervasive it is considered a general law in disease …

Species loss can result in the subsequent loss of affiliate species. Though largely ignored to
date, these coextinctions can pose threats to human health by altering the composition …

This article overviews the dynamics of disease transmission in one-host–one-parasite
systems. Transmission is the result of interacting host and pathogen processes …

At one point or another, almost every organism will face infection by parasites. Despite this
near universality, immune responses to infection vary markedly across individuals, sexes …

Concomitant immunity (CI) against macroparasites describes a state of effective anti–larval
immunity coupled with persistent adult infection. Experimental studies indicate that …

Host individuals are often coinfected with diverse parasite assemblages, resulting in
complex interactions among parasites within hosts. Within hosts, priority effects occur when …

Associations among parasites affect many aspects of host–parasite dynamics, but a lack of
analytical tools has limited investigations of parasite correlations in observational data that …

The potential for disease transmission at the interface of wildlife, domestic animals and
humans has become a major concern for public health and conservation biology. Research …

Infections that consist of multiple parasite strains or species are common in the wild and are
a major public health concern. Theory suggests that these infections have a key influence on …