Meghan Duffy
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Meghan Anne Duffy is an American biologist and the Susan S. Kilham Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. She focuses on the causes and consequences of parasitism in natural populations of lake populations. In 2019, she created a task force to examine factors that influence the mental health and well-being of graduate students at the University of Michigan.
Meghan Duffy's Published Works
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- Rapid evolution and ecological host-parasite dynamics. (2007) (223)
- Eating yourself sick: transmission of disease as a function of foraging ecology. (2007) (170)
- Selective predators and their parasitized prey: Are epidemics in zooplankton under top‐down control? (2005) (140)
- Quality matters: resource quality for hosts and the timing of epidemics. (2009) (131)
- Selective Predation and Productivity Jointly Drive Complex Behavior in Host‐Parasite Systems (2004) (126)
- Friendly competition: evidence for a dilution effect among competitors in a planktonic host-parasite system. (2009) (104)
- Ecological Context Influences Epidemic Size and Parasite-Driven Evolution (2012) (95)
- Selective Predation and Rapid Evolution Can Jointly Dampen Effects of Virulent Parasites on Daphnia Populations (2008) (94)
- Unhealthy herds: indirect effects of predators enhance two drivers of disease spread (2011) (86)
- Warmer does not have to mean sicker: temperature and predators can jointly drive timing of epidemics. (2006) (80)
- Variation in Resource Acquisition and Use among Host Clones Creates Key Epidemiological Trade‐Offs (2010) (73)
- Physical structure of lakes constrains epidemics in Daphnia populations. (2006) (72)
- Smoking habits of long-term survivors of surgery for lung cancer. (1982) (69)
- Parasite-mediated disruptive selection in a natural Daphnia population (2008) (67)
- Rapid evolution, seasonality, and the termination of parasite epidemics. (2009) (65)
- Solar radiation decreases parasitism in Daphnia. (2012) (59)
- Daphnia predation on the amphibian chytrid fungus and its impacts on disease risk in tadpoles (2013) (59)
- Selective predation, parasitism, and trophic cascades in a bluegill–Daphnia–parasite system (2007) (59)
- Paleogenetic evidence for a past invasion of Onondaga Lake, New York, by exotic Daphnia curvirostris using mtDNA from dormant eggs (2000) (59)
- Human drivers of ecological and evolutionary dynamics in emerging and disappearing infectious disease systems (2017) (58)
- Interesting Open Questions in Disease Ecology and Evolution* (2014) (57)
- Predators and Patterns of Within-Host Growth Can Mediate Both Among-Host Competition and Evolution of Transmission Potential of Parasites* (2014) (52)
- Ecological feedbacks and the evolution of resistance. (2009) (52)
- Variation in costs of parasite resistance among natural host populations (2013) (52)
- Why Are Daphnia in Some Lakes Sicker? Disease Ecology, Habitat Structure, and the Plankton (2010) (51)
- Habitat structure and ecological drivers of disease (2014) (51)
- Epidemic size determines population-level effects of fungal parasites on Daphnia hosts (2011) (49)
- Parasite consumption and host interference can inhibit disease spread in dense populations. (2013) (47)
- Temporal, spatial, and between-host comparisons of patterns of parasitism in lake zooplankton. (2010) (45)
- Temperature Drives Epidemics in a Zooplankton-Fungus Disease System: A Trait-Driven Approach Points to Transmission via Host Foraging (2018) (44)
- Epidemiology of a Daphnia-Multiparasite System and Its Implications for the Red Queen (2012) (42)
- Habitat, predators, and hosts regulate disease in Daphnia through direct and indirect pathways (2016) (41)
- Ecological consequences of intraspecific variation in lake Daphnia (2010) (40)
- Gender diversity of editorial boards and gender differences in the peer review process at six journals of ecology and evolution (2019) (40)
- Last and corresponding authorship practices in ecology (2017) (39)
- Spatial heterogeneity of daphniid parasitism within lakes (2005) (39)
- Plasticity, not genetic variation, drives infection success of a fungal parasite (2015) (37)
- Resources, key traits and the size of fungal epidemics in Daphnia populations. (2015) (36)
- A power-efficiency trade-off in resource use alters epidemiological relationships. (2012) (34)
- Potassium stimulates fungal epidemics in Daphnia by increasing host and parasite reproduction. (2013) (33)
- Within-Host Priority Effects Systematically Alter Pathogen Coexistence (2019) (33)
- Salinization decreases population densities of the freshwater crustacean, Daphniadentifera (2016) (32)
- Poor resource quality lowers transmission potential by changing foraging behaviour (2014) (32)
- Population Density, Not Host Competence, Drives Patterns of Disease in an Invaded Community (2016) (32)
- Trait-mediated indirect effects, predators, and disease: test of a size-based model (2013) (30)
- Disease in freshwater zooplankton: what have we learned and where are we going? (2014) (30)
- Priority effects within coinfected hosts can drive unexpected population‐scale patterns of parasite prevalence (2018) (29)
- Parasite rearing and infection temperatures jointly influence disease transmission and shape seasonality of epidemics. (2018) (28)
- Rapid evolution as a possible constraint on emerging infectious diseases (2011) (28)
- Testing the ecological relevance of Daphnia species designations (2004) (26)
- Linking host traits, interactions with competitors and disease: Mechanistic foundations for disease dilution (2018) (25)
- Staying alive: The post‐consumption fate of parasite spores and its implications for disease dynamics (2009) (24)
- Parasite transmission in a natural multihost–multiparasite community (2017) (24)
- Differential infection of exotic and native freshwater amphipods by a parasitic water mold in the St. Lawrence River (2011) (23)
- Allocation, not male resistance, increases male frequency during epidemics: a case study in facultatively sexual hosts. (2017) (21)
- Phylogenetic Characterization and Prevalence of “Spirobacillus cienkowskii,” a Red-Pigmented, Spiral-Shaped Bacterial Pathogen of Freshwater Daphnia Species (2008) (20)
- Infectivity is influenced by parasite spore age and exposure to freezing: do shallow waters provide Daphnia a refuge from some parasites? (2018) (19)
- Within-host priority effects and epidemic timing determine outbreak severity in co-infected populations (2020) (18)
- Ecology, Virulence, and Phylogeny of Blastulidium paedophthorum, a Widespread Brood Parasite of Daphnia spp (2015) (18)
- Parasites destabilize host populations by shifting stage-structured interactions. (2016) (18)
- Stoichiometric relationships in vernal pond plankton communities (2008) (18)
- Toxins or medicines? Phytoplankton diets mediate host and parasite fitness in a freshwater system (2019) (17)
- Students as ecologists: Strategies for successful mentorship of undergraduate researchers (2019) (16)
- Mechanisms by which predators mediate host-parasite interactions in aquatic systems. (2021) (15)
- Local adaptation of a parasite to solar radiation impacts disease transmission potential, spore yield, and host fecundity * (2020) (14)
- Rapid evolution rescues hosts from competition and disease but—despite a dilution effect—increases the density of infected hosts (2017) (14)
- The ecology and phylogeny of oomycete infections in Asplanchna rotifers (2011) (13)
- Maternal effects and epidemiological traits in a planktonic host-parasite system (2011) (13)
- Model Systems in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior: A Call for Diversity in Our Model Systems and Discipline* (2021) (12)
- Bringing ecology blogging into the scientific fold: measuring reach and impact of science community blogs (2017) (12)
- Virulent disease epidemics can increase host density by depressing foraging of hosts (2020) (10)
- Shedding light on environmentally transmitted parasites: lighter conditions within lakes restrict epidemic size. (2020) (8)
- Healthy herds or predator spreaders? Insights from the plankton into how predators suppress and spread disease (2019) (8)
- Context-Dependent Host-Symbiont Interactions: Shifts along the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum (2021) (8)
- The Use and Underuse of Model Systems in Infectious Disease Ecology and Evolutionary Biology* (2021) (7)
- Density, parasitism, and sexual reproduction are strongly correlated in lake Daphnia populations (2021) (7)
- Genotypic variation in an ecologically important parasite is associated with host species, lake and spore size (2021) (6)
- Light exposure decreases infectivity of the Daphnia parasite Pasteuria ramosa (2019) (6)
- The Context-Dependent Effects of Host Competence, Competition, and Pathogen Transmission Mode on Disease Prevalence (2021) (6)
- Spatiotemporal dynamics of free-living stages of a bacterial parasite of zooplankton (2011) (6)
- Can hot temperatures limit disease transmission? A test of mechanisms in a zooplankton-fungus system (2019) (6)
- Context dependent host-symbiont interactions: shifts along the parasitism-mutualism continuum (2021) (5)
- A lack of evidence for six times more anxiety and depression in US graduate students than in the general population (2019) (5)
- Comparing the Indirect Effects between Exploiters in Predator-Prey and Host-Pathogen Systems (2020) (5)
- Draft Genome Sequence of “Candidatus Spirobacillus cienkowskii,” a Pathogen of Freshwater Daphnia Species, Reconstructed from Hemolymph Metagenomic Reads (2018) (4)
- Formative Work and Community Engagement Approaches for Implementing an HIV Intervention in Botswana Schools. (2016) (4)
- Dose relationships can exacerbate, mute, or reverse the impact of heterospecific host density on infection prevalence. (2021) (4)
- A colorful killer: Daphnia infected with the bacterium Spirobacillus cienkowskii exhibit unexpected color variation. (2018) (4)
- Can hot temperatures limit disease transmission? A test of mechanisms in a zooplankton–fungus system (2019) (4)
- Preaching to the choir or composing new verses? Toward a writerly climate literacy in introductory undergraduate biology (2019) (4)
- Supporting mental health and productivity within labs (2021) (4)
- ‘Resistance is futile’: Weaker selection for resistance during larger epidemics further increases prevalence and depresses host density (2021) (3)
- Temperature modifies trait-mediated infection outcomes in a Daphnia-fungal parasite system (2022) (3)
- The context dependent effects of host competence, competition, and the pathogen transmission mode on disease prevalence (2020) (2)
- Sexual recombination and temporal gene flow maintain host resistance and genetic diversity (2022) (2)
- Trait-mediated indirect effects, predators, and disease: test of a size-based model (2013) (2)
- Virulence evolution during a naturally occurring parasite outbreak (2022) (2)
- Resetting our expectations for parasites and their effects on species interactions: a meta‐analysis (2022) (2)
- Ecological Context Influences Evolution in Host-Parasite Interactions: Insights from the Daphnia-Parasite Model System* (2020) (2)
- Is a standard regime for anticoagulation with heparin in unstable angina adequate? (1997) (1)
- Title: The use and underuse of model systems in infectious disease ecology & evolutionary biology (2021) (1)
- Transgenerational plasticity alters parasite fitness in changing environments (2022) (1)
- The visual ecology of selective predation: Are unhealthy hosts less stealthy hosts? (2021) (1)
- Transgenerational virulence: Maternal pathogen exposure reduces offspring fitness (2023) (1)
- The visual ecology of selective predation: Are unhealthy hosts less stealthy hosts? (2021) (1)
- Toward a unified dilution effect theory: How competence, competition, and the transmission mechanism influence disease-diversity relationships (2020) (0)
- A lack of evidence for six times more anxiety and depression in US graduate students than in the general population (2019) (0)
- Transgenerational plasticity in a zooplankton in response to elevated temperature and parasitism (2023) (0)
- Web Appendix 1: Details of model analysis: Equilibria and stability analysis (2005) (0)
- Phylogeny, morphology, virulence, ecology, and host range of Ordospora pajunii (Ordosporidae), a microsporidian symbiont of Daphnia spp (2023) (0)
- Salinization decreases population densities of the freshwater crustacean, Daphniadentifera (2015) (0)
- The use and underuse of model systems in infectious disease ecology & evolution. (2020) (0)
- Infectivity of the parasite Metschnikowia bicuspidata is decreased by time spent as a transmission spore, but exposure to phycotoxins in the water column has no effect (2023) (0)
- Model systems in ecology, evolution, and behavior: A call for diversity in our model systems and discipline (2021) (0)
- Running Head: Parasites Destabilize Host Populations 1 2 Parasites Destabilize Host Populations by Shifting Stage-structured Interactions 3 4 (2015) (0)
- Multiple factors likely explain variation in investment in sexual reproduction by lake Daphnia populations (2021) (0)
- Why We Should Preach to the Climate Change Choir: The Importance of Science Communication That Engages People Who Already Accept Climate Change (2021) (0)
- Looking across Scales in Disease Ecology and Evolution (2021) (0)
- Unhealthy herds and the predator–spreader: Understanding when predation increases disease incidence and prevalence (2023) (0)
- Evolution Ecological Context Influences Epidemic Size and Parasite-Driven (2012) (0)
- Storage length and temperature influence infectivity and spore yield of two common Daphnia parasites (2018) (0)
- Rapid evolution of a bacterial parasite during outbreaks in two Daphnia populations (2023) (0)
- HORIZONS Disease in freshwater zooplankton: what have we learned and where are we going? (2014) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Toxins or medicines? Phytoplankton diets mediate host and parasite fitness in a freshwater system" (2019) (0)
- Model systems in ecology, evolutionary biology, and behavior: A call for diversity in our model systems and discipline (2021) (0)
- Questions in Disease Ecology and Evolution * (2014) (0)
- Host and parasite functional morphology jointly explain parasite specificity (2023) (0)
- A healthy but depleted herd: Predators decrease prey disease and density (2023) (0)
- Ecological context influences epidemic size and parasite-driven evolution (Science (2012) (1636)) (2013) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Rapid evolution rescues hosts from competition and disease but—despite a dilution effect—increases the density of infected hosts" (2017) (0)
- Evaluation of phase II of the MCH Extension Project in the Gambia and Benin. (1978) (0)
- Locating Socail Support for Young LGBTQ Cancer Survivors in Edmonton & Northern Alberta (2017) (0)
- It helps to be well connected (2014) (0)
- Project AMIS: accelerated impact of PID on maternal child health care in Guinea. (1980) (0)
- Call for new AAAS harassment policy (2018) (0)
- Path to Being a Strong Ally in Science (2018) (0)
- Recommendations from the American Heart Association for the pre-participation screening of young athletes for cardiovascular risk factors for sudden death during training and competition (2009) (0)
- Bike Sharing on the UNC Campus: Review of Current Program and Expansion Potential (2014) (0)
- The effect of a pathogen on the population dynamics and reproductive method of Asplanchna girodi (2010) (0)
- Supplementary Material for ‘Toward the unification of dilution effect theory for environmental and direct transmission pathogens’ (2020) (0)
- ‘Resistance is futile’: Weaker selection for resistance by abundant parasites increases prevalence and depresses host density (2023) (0)
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