Outbreaks of environmentally transmitted parasites require that susceptible hosts encounter
transmission stages in the environment and become infected, but we also know that …

The microbiome is the collection of microbes that are associated with a host. Microsporidia
are intracellular eukaryotic parasites that can infect most types of animals. In the last decade …

Infection outcomes can be strongly context dependent, shifting a host-symbiont relationship
along a parasitism-mutualism continuum. Numerous studies show that under stressful …

Environmentally transmitted parasites produce transmission stages that can remain viable
and infective for extended periods of time in the environment where susceptible hosts may …

There is intense interest in understanding pathogen virulence–that is, the degree of damage
caused to a host by a pathogen. However, despite abundant evidence that effects of …