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From the animal house to the field: Are there consistent individual differences in immunological profile in wild populations of field voles (Microtus agrestis)? (2017)
Journal Article
Arriero, E., Wanelik, K. M., Birtles, R. J., Bradley, J. E., Jackson, J. A., Paterson, S., & Begon, M. (2017). From the animal house to the field: Are there consistent individual differences in immunological profile in wild populations of field voles (Microtus agrestis)?. PLoS ONE, 12(8), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183450

Abiotic environmental variation drives virulence evolution in a fish host-parasite geographic mosaic (2017)
Journal Article
Mahmud, M. A., Bradley, J. E., & MacColl, A. D. (2017). Abiotic environmental variation drives virulence evolution in a fish host-parasite geographic mosaic. Functional Ecology, 31(11), 2138-2146. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12921

1. Parasite virulence varies greatly. Theory predicts that this arises from parasites optimising a trade-off between the mortality they inflict on current hosts, and their transmission to future hosts. The effect of the environment on this coevolutio... Read More about Abiotic environmental variation drives virulence evolution in a fish host-parasite geographic mosaic.

Endemic hantavirus in field voles, Northern England (2017)
Journal Article
Thomason, A. G., Begon, M., Bradley, J. E., Paterson, S., & Jackson, J. A. (2017). Endemic hantavirus in field voles, Northern England. Emerging Infectious Disease, 23(6), 1033-1035. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2306.161607

We report a PCR survey of hantavirus infection in an extensive field vole (Microtus agrestis) population present in the Kielder Forest, northern England. A Tatenale virus–like lineage was frequently detected (≈17% prevalence) in liver tissue. Lineage... Read More about Endemic hantavirus in field voles, Northern England.

Eda haplotypes in three-spined stickleback are associated with variation in immune gene expression (2017)
Journal Article
Robertson, S., Bradley, J. E., & MacColl, A. D. (in press). Eda haplotypes in three-spined stickleback are associated with variation in immune gene expression. Scientific Reports, 7, https://doi.org/10.1038/srep42677

Haplotypes underlying local adaptation and speciation are predicted to have numerous phenotypic effects, but few genes involved have been identified, with much work to date concentrating on visible, morphological, phenotypes. The link between genes c... Read More about Eda haplotypes in three-spined stickleback are associated with variation in immune gene expression.