Costs of immune defense: an enigma wrapped in an environmental cloak?

GJ Sandland, DJ Minchella - Trends in parasitology, 2003 - cell.com
Host defense against parasites and pathogens has been recognized as a costly life-history
trait that can generate trade-offs with other fitness components. However, universality of …

Anthropogenic noise pollution and wildlife diseases

BW Berkhout, A Budria, DW Thieltges… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
There is a global rise in anthropogenic noise and a growing awareness of its negative
effects on wildlife, but to date the consequences for wildlife diseases have received little …

Aquatic eutrophication promotes pathogenic infection in amphibians

PTJ Johnson, JM Chase, KL Dosch… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
The widespread emergence of human and wildlife diseases has challenged ecologists to
understand how large-scale agents of environmental change affect host–pathogen …

Linking environmental nutrient enrichment and disease emergence in humans and wildlife

PTJ Johnson, AR Townsend… - Ecological …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide increases in human and wildlife diseases have challenged ecologists to
understand how large‐scale environmental changes affect host–parasite interactions. One …

Disentangling the interaction among host resources, the immune system and pathogens

CE Cressler, WA Nelson, T Day, E McCauley - Ecology letters, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The interaction between the immune system and pathogens is often characterised as a
predator–prey interaction. This characterisation ignores the fact that both require host …

Environmental-endocrine control of reproductive maturation in gastropods: implications for the mechanism of tributyltin-induced imposex in prosobranchs

RM Sternberg, MP Gooding, AK Hotchkiss, GA LeBlanc - Ecotoxicology, 2010 - Springer
Prosobranch snails have been afflicted globally by a condition whereby females develop
male sex characteristics, most notably a penis. This condition, known as imposex, has been …

Responses of a bacterial pathogen to phosphorus limitation of its aquatic invertebrate host

PC Frost, D Ebert, VH Smith - Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Host nutrition is thought to affect the establishment, persistence, and severity of pathogenic
infections. Nutrient‐deficient foods possibly benefit pathogens by constraining host immune …

Towards the comprehension of fasciolosis (re-) emergence: an integrative overview

A Alba, AA Vazquez, S Hurtrez-Boussès - Parasitology, 2021 - cambridge.org
The increasing distribution and prevalence of fasciolosis in both human and livestock are
concerning. Here, we examine the various types of factors influencing fasciolosis …

Bioenergetic theory predicts infection dynamics of human schistosomes in intermediate host snails across ecological gradients

DJ Civitello, H Fatima, LR Johnson, RM Nisbet… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Epidemiological dynamics depend on the traits of hosts and parasites, but hosts and
parasites are heterogeneous entities that exist in dynamic environments. Resource …

Prevalence of Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii Antibodies in Wild Ruminants From the Countryside or Captivity in the Czech Republic

E Bartova, K Sedlak, I Pavlik… - Journal of …, 2007 - meridian.allenpress.com
In the Czech Republic, sera from 720 wild ruminants were examined for antibodies to
Neospora caninum by screening competitive-inhibition enzyme-linked immunosorbent …