Andrew Fenton, Steve Paterson, Mark E. Viney, Michael P. Gardner
Understanding the processes that drive parasite evolution is crucial to the development of management programs that sustain long-term, effective control of infectious disease in the face of parasite...
Here the use of repeated measure linear modeling to analyze experimental infections is demonstrated. This method of analysis makes full use of serial measurements on the same host throughout the...
Hamilton, Ruth, Boots, Mike, Paterson, Steve
Understanding the processes that shape the genetic structure of parasite populations and the functional consequences of different parasite genotypes is critical for our ability to predict how an...
The Genetic Basis of Inbreeding Avoidance in House Mice
Sherborne, Amy L., Thom, Michael D., Paterson, Steve, Jury, Francine, Ollier, William E.R., Stockley, Paula, ...
Animals might be able to use highly polymorphic genetic markers to recognize very close relatives and avoid inbreeding [1, 2]. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is thought to provide such a...
Experimental evolution of parasite life-history traits in Strongyloides ratti (Nematoda)
Paterson, Steve, Barber, Rebecca
Evolutionary ecology predicts that parasite life-history traits, including a parasite's survivorship and fecundity within a host, will evolve in response to selection and that their evolution will be...
Immunological Responses Elicited by Different Infection Regimes with Strongyloides ratti
Paterson, Steve, Wilkes, Clare, Bleay, Colin, Viney, Mark E.
Nematode infections are a ubiquitous feature of vertebrate life. In nature, such nematode infections are acquired by continued exposure to infective stages over a prolonged period of time. By...
Seasonal host dynamics drive the timing of recurrent epidemics in a wildlife population
Begon, Michael, Telfer, Sandra, Smith, Matthew J., Burthe, Sarah, Paterson, Steve, Lambin, Xavier
The seasonality of recurrent epidemics has been largely neglected, especially where patterns are not driven by forces external to the population. Here, we use data on cowpox virus in field voles to...