Quantifying the biomass of parasites to understand their role in aquatic communities

Biomass and productivity of trematode parasites in pond ecosystems

(2013) Daniel L. Preston et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Parasite transmission in complex communities: Predators and alternative hosts alter pathogenic infections in amphibians

(2012) Sarah A. Orlofske et al.   ECOLOGY

Metabolic approaches to understanding climate change impacts on seasonal host-macroparasite dynamics

(2012) Péter K. Molnár et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Parasite diversity and coinfection determine pathogen infection success and host fitness

(2012) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social organization in a flatworm: trematode parasites form soldier and reproductive castes

(2010) R. F. Hechinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

When parasites become prey: ecological and epidemiological significance of eating parasites

(2010) Pieter T.J. Johnson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

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

Small Estuarine Fishes Feed on Large Trematode Cercariae: Lab and Field Investigations

(2009) Amber T. Kaplan et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

A Disease-Mediated Trophic Cascade in the Serengeti and its Implications for Ecosystem C

(2009) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links

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

How large is the hand in the puppet? Ecological and evolutionary factors affecting body mass of 15 trematode parasitic castrators in their snail host

(2008) Ryan F. Hechinger et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

All hosts are not equal: explaining differential patterns of malformations in an amphibian community

(2008) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Production of marine trematode cercariae: a potentially overlooked path of energy flow in benthic systems

(2008) DW Thieltges et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries

(2008) Armand M. Kuris et al.   NATURE

Parasites as predators: unifying natural enemy ecology

(2008) Thomas R. Raffel et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The ecological significance of manipulative parasites

(2008) Thierry Lefèvre et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Parasite effects on isopod feeding rates can alter the host’s functional role in a natural stream ecosystem

(2007) Alexander D. Hernandez et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY