How does parasite environmental transmission stage concentration change before, during, and after disease outbreaks?

ES Davenport, MK Dziuba, LE Jacobson… - Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Outbreaks of environmentally transmitted parasites require that susceptible hosts encounter
transmission stages in the environment and become infected, but we also know that …

Phylogeny, morphology, virulence, ecology, and host range of Ordospora pajunii (Ordosporidae), a microsporidian symbiont of Daphnia spp.

MK Dziuba, KM McIntire, K Seto, ES Davenport… - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
The impacts of microsporidia on host individuals are frequently subtle and can be context
dependent. A key example of the latter comes from a recently discovered microsporidian …