Meghan A. Duffy

TL;DR: Focusing on a particular host-parasite system, Daphnia dentifera and its parasite Metschnikowia bicuspidata, it is shown that Daphnian from lakes with recent epidemics were more resistant to infection and had less variance in susceptibility, suggesting that rapid evolution has important effects on short-term host-Parasite dynamics.

TL;DR: Foraging-based models for disease transmission rate based on broadly applicable components of feeding biology should broadly apply to systems in which hosts encounter parasites while eating, and will catalyse future integration of the roles of Daphnia as grazer and host.

TL;DR: It is suggested that parasitism in Daphnia populations may be seasonally restricted by fish predation, if driven largely by a reduction in predation.

TL;DR: It is hypothesize here that resource quality can also strongly influence disease dynamics: epidemics can be inhibited when resource quality for hosts is too poor and too good.

TL;DR: Interestingly, at higher productivity, predators that neutrally select or avoid parasitized hosts can catalyze extinction of both hosts and parasites, highlighting the crucial importance of the community and ecosystem context in which host‐parasite interactions occur.