Parasite Ecology
2024
Ziegler, S. L., W. E. Atencio, J. M. Carroll, & J. E. Byers. 2024. High parasite prevalence in an ecosystem engineer correlated with both local and landscape-level factors. Oecologia 205: 423-425. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-024-05581-4 PDF
Irwin, B., M. Tomamichel, M. Frischer, R. Hall, A. Davis, T. Bliss, P. Rohani, & J. E. Byers. 2024. Managing the threat of infectious disease in seafood using structured decision making. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 22(2): e2695. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2695. PDF
2023
Resetarits, E. and J. E. Byers. 2023. The role of small-scale environmental gradients on trematode infection. Freshwater Biology 68: 1453-1461. doi: 10.1111/fwb.14140 PDF
Resetarits, E. J., W. T. Ellis, & J. E. Byers. 2023. The opposing roles of lethal and non-lethal effects of parasites on host resource consumption. Ecology and Evolution 13, e9973. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9973. PDF
Tomamichel, M. M., T. L. Walters, R. J. Hall, J. E. Byers, M. E. Frischer. 2023. A methodology to produce specific pathogen-free penaeid shrimp for use in empirical investigations of parasite ecology. Journal of Shellfish Research 42(1): 133-142. doi: 10.2983/035.042.0114 PDF
2022
Rodríguez, S. M., J. E. Byers, F. Cerda-Aliaga, & N. Valdivia. 2022. Variation in helminth infection prevalence, abundance, and coinfection in an intermediate host across large spatial scale. Marine Ecology Progress Series 681: 103-116. PDF
2021
Byers, J. E. 2021. Marine parasites and disease in the era of global climate change. Annual Review of Marine Science 13: 397-420. PDF
Gehman, A. M., M. Mahaffey, & J. E. Byers. 2021. Influences of land use and ecological variables on trematode prevalence and intensity at the salt marsh-upland ecotone. Ecosphere 12(8):e03723. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.3723. PDF
2020
Byers, J. E. 2020. Effects of climate change on parasites and disease in estuarine and nearshore environments. PLoS Biology 18(11): e3000743. PDF
Teitelbaum, C. S., C. R. Amoroso, S. Huang, T. J. Davies, J. Rushmore, J. M. Drake, P. R. Stephens, J. E. Byers, A. A. Majewska, & C. L. Nunn. (in press, 2020). A comparison of diversity estimators applied to a database of host-parasite associations. Ecography 43: 1316-1328. doi: 10.1111/ecog.05143. PDF
Wasson, K., R. A. Fabian, S. Fork, J. Stanganelli, Z. Mize, K. Beheshti, R. Jeppesen, I. Jones, C. J. Zabin, S. Walker, S. C. Lummis, M. Emery, J. D. Moore, C. Endris, D. Jolette, & J. E. Byers. 2020. Multiple factors contribute to the spatially variable and dramatic decline of an invasive snail in an estuary where it was long-established and phenomenally abundant. Biological Invasions. 22: 1181–1202. doi: 10.1007/s10530-019-02172-w. PDF
Gooding, E. L., M. R. Kendrick, J. F. Brunson, P. R. Kingsley-Smith, A. E. Fowler, M. E. Frischer, & J. E. Byers. 2020. Black gill increases the susceptibility of white shrimp, Penaeus setiferus (Linnaeus, 1767), to common estuarine predators. J. Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 524: 151284. doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2019.151284. PDF
2019
Byers, J. E., J.P. Schmidt, P. Pappalardo, S. Haas, & P. R. Stephens. 2019. What factors explain the geographic range of mammalian parasites? Proceedings of the Royal Society London B Biol Sci. 286: 20190673. PDF
2018
Gehman, A. M.*, R. J. Hall, & J. E. Byers. 2018. Host and parasite thermal ecology jointly determine the effect of climate warming on epidemic dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(4): 744-749. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1705067115. PDF (*winner of ESA’s Aquatic Section Thomas M. Frost Award for Excellence in Graduate Research 2018)
Malek, J. C. and J. E Byers. 2018. Responses of an oyster host (Crassostrea virginica) and its protozoan parasite (Perkinsus marinus) to increasing air temperature. PeerJ 6:e5046. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5046. PDF
2017
Keogh, C. L., O. Miura, T. Nishimura, & J. E. Byers. 2017. The double edge to parasite escape: invasive host is less infected but more infectable. Ecology 98(9): 2241-2247. PDF
Malek, J. C. and J. E. Byers. 2017. The effects of tidal elevation on parasite heterogeneity and co-infection in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica . Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology 494: 32-37. PDF
Hughes, A. R., T.C. Hanley, J. E. Byers, J. H. Grabowski, J. C. Malek, M. F. Piehler, & D. L. Kimbro. 2017. Genetic by environmental variation but no local adaptation in juvenile oysters (Crassostrea virginica). Ecology and Evolution 7: 697–709. PDF
Gehman, A. M. and J. E. Byers. 2017. Non-native parasite enhances susceptibility of host to native predators. Oecologia 183: 919–926. PDF
Gehman, A. M., J. H. Grabowski, A. R. Hughes, D. L. Kimbro, M. F. Piehler, & J. E. Byers.. 2017. Predators, environment and host characteristics influence the probability of infection by an invasive castrating parasite. Oecologia 183: 139–149. PDF
Stephens, P. R., P. Pappalardo, S. Huang, J. E. Byers, M. J. Farrell, A. Gehman, R.R. Ghai, S.E. Haas, B. Han, A.W. Park, J.P. Schmidt, S. Altizer, V.O. Ezenwa, C.L. Nunn. in press, 2017. Global Mammal Parasite Database version 2.0. Ecology 98(5): 1476. PDF
2016
Malek, J. C. and J. E. Byers. 2016. Predator effects on host-parasite interactions in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica. Marine Ecology Progress Series 556: 131-141. PDF
Stephens, P. R., S. Altizer, K. F. Smith, A. A. Aguirre, J. H. Brown, S.A. Budischack, J. E. Byers, T. A. Dallas, T.J. Davies, J. M. Drake, V. O. Ezenwa, M. J. Ferrell, J.L. Gittleman, B. A. Han, S. Huang, R. A. Hutchinson, P. Johnson, C. L. Nunn, D. Onstad, A. Park, G. M. Vazquez-Prokopec, J. P. Schmidt, & R. Poulin. 2016. The macroecology of infectious diseases: A new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts. Ecology Letters 19: 1159-1171. PDF
Byers, J. E., Z. C. Holmes, & A. M. H. Blakeslee. 2016. Consistency of trematode infection prevalence in host populations across large spatial and temporal scales. Ecology 97(7): 1643-1649. PDF
Keogh, C. L., M. E. Sanderson, & J. E. Byers. 2016. Local adaptation to parasite selective pressure: comparing three congeneric co-occurring hosts. Oecologia 180(1): 137-147. doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3461-9. PDF
2015
Byers, J. E., A. J. Malek, L. E. Quevillon, I. Altman, & C.L. Keogh. 2015. Opposing selective pressures decouple pattern and process of parasitic infection over small spatial scale. Oikos 124(11): 1511-1519. doi 10.1111/oik.02088. PDF
2014
Byers, J. E., T. L. Rogers, J. H. Grabowski, A.R. Hughes, M. F. Piehler, & D. L. Kimbro. 2014. Host and parasite recruitment correlated at a biogeographic scale. Oecologia 174: 731-738. PDF
2012
Dunn, A.M., M.E. Torchin, M.J. Hatcher, P.M. Kotanen , D.M. Blumenthal, J.E. Byers, C.A.C. Coon, V.M. Frankel, R.D. Holt, R.A. Hufbauer, A.R. Kanarek, K.A. Schierenbeck, L.M. Wolfe, & S.E. Perkins. 2012. Indirect effects of parasites in invasions. Functional Ecology 26: 1262-1274. PDF
Blakeslee, A.M.H., I. Altman, A.W. Miller, J. E. Byers, C.E. Hamer, & G.M. Ruiz. 2012. Parasites and invasions: a biogeographic examination of parasites and hosts in native and introduced ranges. J. of Biogeography 39: 609-622. PDF
2011
Byers, J. E., I. Altman, A. M. Grosse, T. C. Huspeni, & J.C. Maerz. 2011. Using parasitic trematode larvae to quantify an elusive vertebrate host. Conservation Biology 25(1): 85-93. PDF
2009
Blakeslee, A.M.H., C.L. Keogh, J. E. Byers, A.M. Kuris, K.D. Lafferty, & M.E. Torchin. 2009. Differential escape from parasites by two competing introduced crabs. Marine Ecology Progress Series 393: 83-96. PDF
Byers, J. E. 2009. Including parasites in food webs. Trends in Parasitology 25(2): 55-57. PDF
2008
Blakeslee, A.M.H. and J. E. Byers. 2008. Using parasites to inform ecological history: comparisons among three congeneric marine snails. Ecology 89(4): 1068-1078. PDF
Byers, J. E., A. Blakeslee, E. Linder, A. Cooper, & T. Maguire. 2008. Controls of spatial variation in the prevalence of trematode parasites infecting a marine snail. Ecology 89(2):439-451. PDF
2007
Wood, C. L.*, J. E. Byers, K. Cottingham, I. Altman, M. Donahue, & A. Blakeslee. 2007. Parasites alter community structure. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences 104(22): 9335-39. [*winner of ESA’s Outstanding Undergraduate Student Research Award 2008] PDF
2005
Torchin, M.E., J. E. Byers, & T. Huspeni. 2005. Differential parasitism of native and introduced snails: replacement of a parasite fauna. Biological Invasions 7(6): 885-894. PDF
2000
Byers, J. E. 2000. Competition between two estuarine snails: implications for invasions of exotic species. Ecology 81(5): 1225-1239. PDF