The rise of ecological parasitology: twelve landmark advances that changed its history

Infectious diseases and social distancing in nature

(2021) Sebastian Stockmaier et al.   SCIENCE

Network Analysis: Ten Years Shining Light on Host–Parasite Interactions

(2021) Rogini Runghen et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

A broadscale analysis of host‐symbiont cophylogeny reveals the drivers of phylogenetic congruence

(2021) Alexander Hayward et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Testing for deterministic succession in metazoan parasite communities of marine fish

(2020) Juan F. Espínola‐Novelo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Host patch traits have scale-dependent effects on diversity in a stickleback parasite metacommunity

(2020) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Drivers of compositional turnover are related to species’ commonness in flea assemblages from four biogeographic realms: zeta diversity and multi-site generalised dissimilarity modelling

(2020) Boris R. Krasnov et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Persistence of a Core Microbiome Through the Ontogeny of a Multi-Host Parasite

(2020) Fátima Jorge et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Parasites of Percophis brasiliensis (Percophidae) benefited from fishery regulations: Indicators of success for marine protected areas?

(2020) Paola E. Braicovich et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

A global parasite conservation plan

(2020) Colin J. Carlson et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Biodiversity loss underlies the dilution effect of biodiversity

(2020) Fletcher W. Halliday et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Host–parasite co-evolution and its genomic signature

(2020) Dieter Ebert et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites?

(2020) Colin J. Carlson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of climate change on parasites and disease in estuarine and nearshore environments

(2020) James E. Byers   PLOS BIOLOGY

Ecology, not distance, explains community composition in parasites of sky-island Audubon’s Warblers

(2019) Jessie L. Williamson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Parasitological research in the molecular age

(2019) Christian Selbach et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Microbiomes as sources of emergent host phenotypes

(2019) J. B. Lynch et al.   SCIENCE

Indirect Effects Explain the Role of Parasites in Ecosystems

(2019) Julia C. Buck   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Poor geographical match between the distributions of host diversity and parasite discovery effort

(2018) Fátima Jorge et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Parasite Avoidance

(2018) J.C. Buck et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Risky business: linkingToxoplasma gondiiinfection and entrepreneurship behaviours across individuals and countries

(2018) Stefanie K. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An updated look at the uneven distribution of cryptic diversity among parasitic helminths

(2017) G. Pérez-Ponce de León et al.   JOURNAL OF HELMINTHOLOGY

Parasite life-cycle studies: a plea to resurrect an old parasitological tradition

(2017) I. Blasco-Costa et al.   JOURNAL OF HELMINTHOLOGY

Host-specific associations affect the microbiome of Philornis downsi , an introduced parasite to the Galápagos Islands

(2017) Michael Ben-Yosef et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Parasite responses to pollution: what we know and where we go in ‘Environmental Parasitology’

(2017) Bernd Sures et al.   Parasites & Vectors

One Health, emerging infectious diseases and wildlife: two decades of progress?

(2017) Andrew A. Cunningham et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Experimental evidence that parasites drive eco-evolutionary feedbacks

(2017) Franziska S. Brunner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Parasite Microbiome Project: Systematic Investigation of Microbiome Dynamics within and across Parasite-Host Interactions

(2017) Nolwenn M. Dheilly et al.   mSystems

Invasion ecology meets parasitology: Advances and challenges

(2017) Robert Poulin   International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife

Parasite assemblages of Double-crested Cormorants as indicators of host populations and migration behavior

(2016) Kate L. Sheehan et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts

(2016) Patrick R. Stephens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Host dispersal as the driver of parasite genetic structure: a paradigm lost?

(2016) Elise Mazé-Guilmo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Experimental insight into the process of parasite community assembly

(2016) Sarah A. Budischak et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Experimental parasite community ecology: intraspecific variation in a large tapeworm affects community assembly

(2016) Daniel P. Benesh et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The Rise of Disease Ecology and Its Implications for Parasitology— A Review

(2016) Janet Koprivnikar et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

The diversity–disease relationship: evidence for and criticisms of the dilution effect

(2016) Z. Y. X. HUANG et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Using contact networks to explore mechanisms of parasite transmission in wildlife

(2015) Lauren A. White et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Frontiers in research on biodiversity and disease

(2015) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biological warfare: Microorganisms as drivers of host–parasite interactions

(2015) Nolwenn M. Dheilly et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Biodiversity inhibits parasites: Broad evidence for the dilution effect

(2015) David J. Civitello et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why infectious disease research needs community ecology

(2015) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

Host Manipulation by Parasites: A Look Back Before Moving Forward

(2015) Robert Poulin et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

(macro-) Evolutionary ecology of parasite diversity: From determinants of parasite species richness to host diversification

(2015) Serge Morand   International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife

Testing the Hamilton-Zuk Hypothesis: Past, Present, and Future

(2014) S. L. Balenger et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Parasite biodiversity revisited: frontiers and constraints

(2014) Robert Poulin   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Inventory of organisms interfering with transmission of a marine trematode

(2014) Jennifer E. Welsh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

What helminth genomes have taught us about parasite evolution

(2014) MAGDALENA ZAROWIECKI et al.   PARASITOLOGY

How to Live with the Enemy: Understanding Tolerance to Parasites

(2014) Lars Råberg   PLOS BIOLOGY

A Metabolic and Body-Size Scaling Framework for Parasite Within-Host Abundance, Biomass, and Energy Flux

(2013) Ryan F. Hechinger   AMERICAN NATURALIST

What determines species richness of parasitic organisms? A meta-analysis across animal, plant and fungal hosts

(2013) Tsukushi Kamiya et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Network transmission inference: Host behavior and parasite life cycle make social networks meaningful in disease ecology

(2013) Daniel A. Grear et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Stocks and seasonal migrations of the flounderXystreurys rasileas indicated by its parasites

(2013) A. J. Alarcos et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Cospeciation vs host-shift speciation: methods for testing, evidence from natural associations and relation to coevolution

(2013) D. M. de Vienne et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Explaining variability in parasite aggregation levels among host samples

(2013) ROBERT POULIN   PARASITOLOGY

PACo: A Novel Procrustes Application to Cophylogenetic Analysis

(2013) Juan Antonio Balbuena et al.   PLoS One

Parasites Affect Food Web Structure Primarily through Increased Diversity and Complexity

(2013) Jennifer A. Dunne et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Networks and the ecology of parasite transmission: A framework for wildlife parasitology

(2013) Stephanie S. Godfrey   International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife

Gut microbiota instead of host genotype drive the specificity in the interaction of a natural host-parasite system

(2012) Hauke Koch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Influence of latent Toxoplasma infection on human personality, physiology and morphology: pros and cons of the Toxoplasma-human model in studying the manipulation hypothesis

(2012) J. Flegr   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

FishPEST: an innovative software suite for fish parasitologists

(2012) Giovanni Strona et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Host–parasite interactions: a litmus test for ocean acidification?

(2012) Colin D. MacLeod et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Effects of Host Diversity on Infectious Disease

(2011) Richard S. Ostfeld et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Can the enemy release hypothesis explain the success of invasive alien predators and parasitoids?

(2011) H. E. Roy et al.   BIOCONTROL

Integrating molecular and morphological approaches for characterizing parasite cryptic species: implications for parasitology

(2011) STEVEN A. NADLER et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Frontiers in climate change–disease research

(2011) Jason R. Rohr et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Diversity, decoys and the dilution effect: how ecological communities affect disease risk

(2010) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Species Interactions in a Parasite Community Drive Infection Risk in a Wildlife Population

(2010) Sandra Telfer et al.   SCIENCE

Pollution and parasitism in aquatic animals: A meta-analysis of effect size

(2009) Christopher A. Blanar et al.   AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY

Parasite spillback: A neglected concept in invasion ecology?

(2009) D. W. Kelly et al.   ECOLOGY

The ecology of climate change and infectious diseases

(2009) Kevin D. Lafferty   ECOLOGY

The use and abuse of parasites as stock markers for fish

(2009) R.J.G. Lester et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Characterization of a diversity of tetraphyllidean and rhinebothriidean cestode larval types, with comments on host associations and life-cycles

(2009) Kirsten Jensen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

The sixth mass coextinction: are most endangered species parasites and mutualists?

(2009) R. R. Dunn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Can parasites really reveal environmental impact?

(2009) Victor M. Vidal-Martínez et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Parasite-mediated allochthonous input: Do hairworms enhance subsidized predation of stream salmonids on crickets?

(2008) T. Sato et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MACROPARASITES AND MICROPARASITES DRIVE INFECTION PATTERNS IN FREE-RANGING AFRICAN BUFFALO

(2008) Anna E. Jolles et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2008) Armand M. Kuris et al.   NATURE

The role of biotic factors in the transmission of free-living endohelminth stages

(2008) D. W. THIELTGES et al.   PARASITOLOGY

The ecological significance of manipulative parasites

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