How does parasite environmental transmission stage concentration change before, during, and after disease outbreaks?

ES Davenport, MK Dziuba, LE Jacobson… - Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Outbreaks of environmentally transmitted parasites require that susceptible hosts encounter
transmission stages in the environment and become infected, but we also know that …

Interactions between microsporidia and other members of the microbiome

J Tersigni, H Tamim El Jarkass… - Journal of Eukaryotic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The microbiome is the collection of microbes that are associated with a host. Microsporidia
are intracellular eukaryotic parasites that can infect most types of animals. In the last decade …

Transgenerational virulence: Maternal pathogen exposure reduces offspring fitness

KM McIntirea, MK Dziuba, EB Haywood, ML Robertson… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
There is intense interest in understanding pathogen virulence–that is, the degree of damage
caused to a host by a pathogen. However, despite abundant evidence that effects of …