Publications

co-infections of haemosporidian and trypanosome parasites in a north american songbird.	hosts frequently harbour multiple parasite infections, yet patterns of parasite co-occurrence are poorly documented in nature. in this study, we asked whether two common avian blood parasites, one haemosporidian and one trypanosome, affect each other's occurrence in individuals of a single host species. we used molecular genotyping to survey protozoan parasites in the peripheral blood of yellow-breasted chats (aves: passeriformes [parulidae]: icteria virens) from the ozarks of southern missouri. ...	2016	27644582
the ecology of host immune responses to chronic avian haemosporidian infection.	host responses to parasitism in the wild are often studied in the context of single host-parasite systems, which provide little insight into the ecological dynamics of host-parasite interactions within a community. here we characterized immune system responses to mostly low-intensity, chronic infection by haemosporidian parasites in a sample of 424 individuals of 22 avian host species from the same local assemblage in the missouri ozarks. two types of white blood cells (heterophils and lymphocyt ...	2014	25179282