For decades, people have reduced the transmission of pathogens by adding low‐quality
hosts to managed environments like agricultural fields. More recently, there has been …

The observed dynamics of infectious diseases are driven by processes across multiple
scales. Here we focus on two: within-host, that is, how an infection progresses inside a …

Transmission is a fundamental step in the life cycle of every parasite but it is also one of the
most challenging processes to model and quantify. In most host–parasite models, the …

Associating with conspecifics afflicted with infectious diseases increases the risk of
becoming infected, but engaging in avoidance behaviour incurs the cost of lost social …

Understanding the effects of parasites on host behaviour, of host behaviour on parasite
infection, and the reciprocal interactions between these processes is vital to improving our …

Symbionts tend to be aggregated on their hosts, such that few hosts harbor the majority of
symbionts. This ubiquitous pattern can result from stochastic processes, but aggregation …

Parasites exploit hosts to replicate and transmit, but overexploitation kills both host and
parasite. Predators may shift this cost–benefit balance by consuming infected hosts or …

Sexually selected ornaments range from highly dynamic traits to those that are fixed during
development and relatively static throughout sexual maturity. Ornaments along this …

Abstract Changes in environmental conditions alter host–parasite interactions, raising the
need for effective epidemiological surveillance. Developing operational, accurate, and cost …

This protocol describes a 96-well disruption of individual bacterially colonized
Caenorhabdifis elegans following cold paralysis and surface bleaching to remove external …