The ecoimmunology of invasive species

Rapid evolution of parasite life history traits on an expanding range-edge

(2012) Crystal Kelehear et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Living fast and dying of infection: host life history drives interspecific variation in infection and disease risk

(2012) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Parasites as mediators of heterozygosity-fitness correlations in the Great Tit (Parus major)

(2012) B. VOEGELI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evidence for selection at cytokine loci in a natural population of field voles (Microtus agrestis)

(2012) ANDREW K. TURNER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Human population structure and the adaptive response to pathogen-induced selection pressures

(2012) J. Novembre et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rapid and adaptive evolution of MHC genes under parasite selection in experimental vertebrate populations

(2012) Christophe Eizaguirre et al.   Nature Communications

Ecological genetics of invasive alien species

(2011) L.-J. Lawson Handley et al.   BIOCONTROL

Reduced investment in immune function in invasion-front populations of the cane toad (Rhinella marina) in Australia

(2011) David Llewellyn et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

REVERSE EVOLUTION: SELECTION AGAINST COSTLY RESISTANCE IN DISEASE-FREE MICROCOSM POPULATIONS OF PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM

(2011) Alison B. Duncan et al.   EVOLUTION

Founder events predict changes in genetic diversity during human-mediated range expansions

(2011) Tobias Uller et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pathogen Pressure Puts Immune Defense into Perspective

(2011) N. P. C. Horrocks et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Reconstitution of the human biome as the most reasonable solution for epidemics of allergic and autoimmune diseases

(2011) Staci D. Bilbo et al.   MEDICAL HYPOTHESES

Drift and selection influence geographic variation at immune loci of prairie-chickens

(2011) JENNIFER L. BOLLMER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Digital gene expression analysis of gastrointestinal helminth resistance in Scottish blackface lambs

(2011) J. M. PEMBERTON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Wild immunology

(2011) AMY B. PEDERSEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Gene conversion rapidly generates major histocompatibility complex diversity in recently founded bird populations

(2011) LEWIS G. SPURGIN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

An evolutionary process that assembles phenotypes through space rather than through time

(2011) R. Shine et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deep Human Genealogies Reveal a Selective Advantage to Be on an Expanding Wave Front

(2011) C. Moreau et al.   SCIENCE

The economy of inflammation: when is less more?

(2011) Brittany F. Sears et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Genetic Diversity in Cytokines Associated with Immune Variation and Resistance to Multiple Pathogens in a Natural Rodent Population

(2011) Andrew K. Turner et al.   PLoS Genetics

Molecular survey of rodent-borne Trypanosoma in Niger with special emphasis on T. lewisi imported by invasive black rats

(2010) Gauthier Dobigny et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Hidden Consequences of Living in a Wormy World: Nematode‐Induced Immune Suppression Facilitates Tuberculosis Invasion in African Buffalo

(2010) Vanessa O. Ezenwa et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Body size and social dominance influence breeding dispersal in male Pachydiplax longipennis (Odonata)

(2010) SHANNON J. McCAULEY   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Parasites and pathogens lag behind their host during periods of host range advance

(2010) Ben L. Phillips et al.   ECOLOGY

Trade-offs and the evolution of life-histories during range expansion

(2010) Olivia J. Burton et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Negative relationships between cellular immune response, Mhc class II heterozygosity and secondary sexual trait in the montane water vole

(2010) Nathalie Charbonnel et al.   Evolutionary Applications

The role of constraints and limitation in driving individual variation in immune response

(2010) Daniel R. Ardia et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Trade-off between growth and immune function: a meta-analysis of selection experiments

(2010) Peter J. van der Most et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Fitness consequences of immune responses: strengthening the empirical framework for ecoimmunology

(2010) Andrea L. Graham et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Using Environmental Correlations to Identify Loci Underlying Local Adaptation

(2010) G. Coop et al.   GENETICS

Tnf-α expression and promoter sequences reflect the balance of tolerance/resistance to Puumala hantavirus infection in European bank vole populations

(2010) Emmanuel Guivier et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The analysis of immunological profiles in wild animals: a case study on immunodynamics in the field vole, Microtus agrestis

(2010) JOSEPH A. JACKSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Beyond MHC: signals of elevated selection pressure on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) immune-relevant loci

(2010) A. TONTERI et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Effects of an MHC-DRB genotype and allele number on the load of gut parasites in the bank voleMyodes glareolus

(2010) AGNIESZKA KLOCH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Transcriptomic response of red grouse to gastro-intestinal nematode parasites and testosterone: implications for population dynamics

(2010) L. M. I. WEBSTER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Combining genetic, historical and geographical data to reconstruct the dynamics of bioinvasions: application to the cane toad Bufo marinus

(2010) ARNAUD ESTOUP et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Evolution of dispersal traits along an invasion route in the wind-dispersed Senecio inaequidens (Asteraceae)

(2010) Arnaud Monty et al.   OIKOS

Host-pathogen coevolution, secondary sympatry and species diversification

(2010) R. E. Ricklefs   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Host density drives the postglacial migration of the tree parasite, Epifagus virginiana

(2010) Y.-H. E. Tsai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fitness Correlates of Heritable Variation in Antibody Responsiveness in a Wild Mammal

(2010) Andrea L. Graham et al.   SCIENCE

Population Genomics of Parallel Adaptation in Threespine Stickleback using Sequenced RAD Tags

(2010) Paul A. Hohenlohe et al.   PLoS Genetics

Genetic Consequences of Range Expansions

(2009) Laurent Excoffier et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The evolution of growth rates on an expanding range edge

(2009) B. L. Phillips   Biology Letters

Parasite spillback: A neglected concept in invasion ecology?

(2009) D. W. Kelly et al.   ECOLOGY

Detecting loci under selection in a hierarchically structured population

(2009) L Excoffier et al.   HEREDITY

The Polistes war: weak immune function in the invasive P. dominulus relative to the native P. fuscatus

(2009) N. Wilson-Rich et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Modelling the black death. A historical case study and implications for the epidemiology of bubonic plague

(2009) Stefan Monecke et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

A test of life-history theories of immune defence in two ecotypes of the garter snake,Thamnophis elegans

(2009) Amanda Marie Sparkman et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Differences in parasite susceptibility and costs of resistance between naturally exposed and unexposed host populations

(2009) T. HASU et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) heterozygote superiority to natural multi-parasite infections in the water vole (Arvicola terrestris)

(2009) M.K Oliver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Population collapse to extinction: the catastrophic combination of parasitism and Allee effect

(2009) Frank M. Hilker   Journal of Biological Dynamics

Large Allele Frequency Differences between Human Continental Groups are more Likely to have Occurred by Drift During range Expansions than by Selection

(2008) T. Hofer et al.   ANNALS OF HUMAN GENETICS

Escape from natural enemies during climate-driven range expansion: a case study

(2008) ROSA MENÉNDEZ et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Elevated reproductive effort increases blood parasitaemia and decreases immune function in birds: a meta-regression approach

(2008) Sarah C. L. Knowles et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A Genome-Scan Method to Identify Selected Loci Appropriate for Both Dominant and Codominant Markers: A Bayesian Perspective

(2008) M. Foll et al.   GENETICS

Heterozygosity and lungworm burden in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina)

(2008) J M Rijks et al.   HEREDITY

Fine-scale genetic structure and marginal processes in an expanding population of Biscutella laevigata L. (Brassicaceae)

(2008) C Parisod et al.   HEREDITY

Multiple parasites mediate balancing selection at two MHC class II genes in the fossorial water vole: insights from multivariate analyses and population genetics

(2008) C. TOLLENAERE et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Mandible asymmetry and genetic diversity in island populations of the common shrew, Sorex araneus

(2008) T. A. WHITE et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Proportionally more deleterious genetic variation in European than in African populations

(2008) Kirk E. Lohmueller et al.   NATURE

Decomposing health: tolerance and resistance to parasites in animals

(2008) L. Raberg et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Historical Mammal Extinction on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) Correlates with Introduced Infectious Disease

(2008) Kelly B. Wyatt et al.   PLoS One

Virulence-transmission trade-offs and population divergence in virulence in a naturally occurring butterfly parasite

(2008) J. C. de Roode et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Poor condition and infection: a vicious circle in natural populations

(2008) P. M Beldomenico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Invading with biological weapons: the role of shared disease in ecological invasion

(2008) Sally S. Bell et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Founding events in species invasions: genetic variation, adaptive evolution, and the role of multiple introductions

(2007) K. M. DLUGOSCH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY