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No evidence of local adaptation of immune responses to Gyrodactylus in three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) (2016)
Journal Article
Robertson, S., Bradley, J. E., & MacColl, A. D. (2017). No evidence of local adaptation of immune responses to Gyrodactylus in three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Fish and Shellfish Immunology, 60, 275-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2016.11.058

© 2016 The Authors Parasitism represents one of the most widespread lifestyles in the animal kingdom, with the potential to drive coevolutionary dynamics with their host population. Where hosts and parasites evolve together, we may find local adaptat... Read More about No evidence of local adaptation of immune responses to Gyrodactylus in three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

Spatial and temporal variation in macroparasite communities of three-spined stickleback (2016)
Journal Article
Young, R. E., & MacColl, A. D. (in press). Spatial and temporal variation in macroparasite communities of three-spined stickleback. Parasitology, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182016001815

Patterns in parasite community structure are often observed in natural systems and an important question in parasite ecology is whether such patterns are repeatable across time and space. Field studies commonly look at spatial or temporal repeatabili... Read More about Spatial and temporal variation in macroparasite communities of three-spined stickleback.

Parasites contribute to ecologically dependent postmating isolation in the adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback. (2016)
Journal Article
El Nagar, A., & MacColl, A. D. (2016). Parasites contribute to ecologically dependent postmating isolation in the adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1836), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0691

Spatial variation in parasitic infections is common, and has the potential to drive population divergence and reproductive isolation of hosts. However, despite support from theory and model laboratory systems, not much strong evidence has been forthc... Read More about Parasites contribute to ecologically dependent postmating isolation in the adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback..

The ecology of an adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback from North Uist, Scotland (2016)
Journal Article
Magalhaes, I. S., D’Agostino, D., Hohenlohe, P. A., & MacColl, A. D. (2016). The ecology of an adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback from North Uist, Scotland. Molecular Ecology, 25(17), 4319-4336. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13746

There has been a large focus on the genetics of traits involved in adaptation, but knowledge of the environmental variables leading to adaptive changes is surprisingly poor. Combined use of environmental data with morphological and genomic data shoul... Read More about The ecology of an adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback from North Uist, Scotland.