The trophic vacuum and the evolution of complex life cycles in trophically transmitted helminths

Complex Life Cycles: Why Refrain from Growth before Reproduction in the Adult Niche?

(2012) Daniel P. Benesh et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Disentangling phylogenetic constraints from selective forces in the evolution of trematode transmission stages

(2012) Anson V. Koehler et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Diverse effects of parasites in ecosystems: linking interdependent processes

(2012) Melanie J Hatcher et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Where are the parasites in food webs?

(2012) Michael VK Sukhdeo   Parasites & Vectors

Body sizes, cumulative and allometric degree distributions across natural food webs

(2011) Christoph Digel et al.   OIKOS

Complex life cycle of Pterygodermatites peromysci, a trophically transmitted parasite of the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus)

(2011) Lien T. Luong et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Stepping in Elton’s footprints: a general scaling model for body masses and trophic levels across ecosystems

(2010) Jens O. Riede et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Exploitation of asymmetric predator-prey interactions by trophically transmitted parasites

(2010) Wayne Rossiter et al.   OIKOS

Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data

(2010) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

(2009) Kate E. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

Food web topology and parasites in the pelagic zone of a subarctic lake

(2009) Per-Arne Amundsen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

To grow or not to grow? Intermediate and paratenic hosts as helminth life cycle strategies

(2009) G.A. Parker et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

A phylogenetic tree of nematodes based on about 1200 full-length small subunit ribosomal DNA sequences

(2009) Hanny van Megen et al.   NEMATOLOGY

Determinants and consequences of interspecific body size variation in tetraphyllidean tapeworms

(2009) Haseeb Sajjad Randhawa et al.   OECOLOGIA

Vertebrate diets derived from trophically transmitted fish parasites in the Bothnian Bay

(2009) E. T. Valtonen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Finding advanced third-stage larvae of Gnathostoma turgidum Stossich, 1902 in Mexico from natural and experimental host and contributions to the life cycle description

(2009) Miguel Ángel Mosqueda Cabrera et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Living in intermediate hosts: evolutionary adaptations in larval helminths

(2009) James C. Chubb et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links

(2008) Kevin D. Lafferty et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Predicting natural mortality rates of plants and animals

(2008) Michael W. McCoy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The evolution of complex life cycles when parasite mortality is size- or time-dependent

(2008) M.A. Ball et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Network position of hosts in food webs and their parasite diversity

(2008) Hsuan-Wien Chen et al.   OIKOS