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List of works by Philippe Christe

A community perspective on the evolution of virulence

Age-specific variation of resistance to oxidative stress in the greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber roseus)

Altitudinal variation in haemosporidian parasite distribution in great tit populations

scientific article

Amphibian abundance is associated with reduced mosquito presence in human‐modified landscapes

scientific article published in 2023

Avian haemosporidian persistence and co-infection in great tits at the individual level

scientific article published on 30 January 2013

Avian malaria and bird humoral immune response

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

Bat Flies and Their Microparasites: Current Knowledge and Distribution

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Biological conservation and parasitism

Causal mechanisms underlying host specificity in bat ectoparasites

scientific article published on 09 January 2004

Coevolutionary arms races: increased host immune defense promotes specialization by avian fleas.

scientific article published in January 2005

Correction: Sex-biased parasitism in vector-borne disease: Vector preference?

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Covariation between colony social structure and immune defences of workers in the ant Formica selysi

Deliberate rusty staining of plumage in the bearded vulture: does function precede art?

Determinants of haemosporidian single- and co-infection risks in western palearctic birds

scientific article published in 2022

Developmental, metabolic and immunological costs of flea infestation in the common vole

scholarly article by Godefroy Devevey et al published December 2008 in Functional Ecology

Different distribution of malaria parasite in left and right extremities of vertebrate hosts translates into differences in parasite transmission

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Differential species-specific ectoparasitic mite intensities in two intimately coexisting sibling bat species: resource-mediated host attractiveness or parasite specialization?

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Disease in the dark: molecular characterization of Polychromophilus murinus in temperate zone bats revealed a worldwide distribution of this malaria-like disease

scientific article published on 12 November 2010

Ectoparasite affects choice and use of roost sites in the great tit, Parus major

Effect of Neonicotinoid Exposure on the Life History Traits and Susceptibility to Plasmodium Infection on the Major Avian Malaria Vector Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae)

scientific article published in 2021

Effect of an Ectoparasite on Reproduction in Great Tits

scientific article published in 1993

Effect of an ectoparasite on lay date, nest-site choice, desertion, and hatching success in the great tit (Pants major)

article by Anne Oppliger et al published 1994 in Behavioral Ecology

Effects of fungal infection on the survival of parasitic bat flies

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Epidemiological traits of the malaria-like parasite Polychromophilus murinus in the Daubenton's bat Myotis daubentonii

scientific article

Erratum: Clutch size and malaria resistance

scientific article published in Nature

Evidence for collective medication in ants

article

Experiment in semi-natural conditions did not confirm the influence of malaria infection on bird attractiveness to mosquitoes

scientific article published on 02 June 2022

Experimentally increased group diversity improves disease resistance in an ant species

scientific article published on 26 March 2008

Exposure of the mosquito vector Culex pipiens to the malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum: effect of infected blood intake on immune and antioxidant defences, fecundity and survival

scientific article

Fecundity and survival in relation to resistance to oxidative stress in a free-living bird

scientific article published on September 2008

Flea infestation reduces the life span of the common vole

scientific article published on 7 August 2009

Food availability as a major driver in the evolution of life-history strategies of sibling species

scientific article

Fortuitous infestation or wide host range? The case of Spinturnicidae and their bat hosts: Reply to Guiller and Deunff (2010)

Genetic and environmental components of phenotypic variation in immune response and body size of a colonial bird, Delichon urbica (the house martin).

scientific article published in July 2000

Genetic isolation of insular populations of the Maghrebian bat,Myotis punicus, in the Mediterranean Basin

Genotyping faeces reveals facultative kin association on capercaillie’s leks

scholarly article by Sébastien Regnaut et al published 21 February 2006 in Conservation Genetics

Geographic and temporal variation in the consumption of bats by European Barn Owls

Haemosporidian infection and co-infection affect host survival and reproduction in wild populations of great tits

scholarly article published by Philippe Christe in 2018

High prevalence and lineage diversity of avian malaria in wild populations of great tits (Parus major) and mosquitoes (Culex pipiens).

scientific article

High semi‐natural vegetation cover and heterogeneity of field sizes promote bird beta‐diversity at larger scales in Ethiopian Highlands

scientific article published on 14 February 2022

Host conservation through their parasites: molecular surveillance of vector-borne microorganisms in bats using ectoparasitic bat flies

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

Host sex and ectoparasites choice: preference for, and higher survival on female hosts

scientific article published in July 2007

Host shift and cospeciation rate estimation from co-phylogenies

scientific article published on 29 June 2017

How a haemosporidian parasite of bats gets around: the genetic structure of a parasite, vector and host compared.

scientific article published on 3 February 2015

Impact of field-realistic doses of glyphosate and nutritional stress on mosquito life history traits and susceptibility to malaria parasite infection

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

Interspecific correlation between red blood cell mitochondrial ROS production, cardiolipin content and longevity in birds

scientific article

Intraseasonal variation in immune defence, body mass and hematocrit in adult house martins Delichon urbica

article by Philippe Christe et al published September 2002 in Journal of Avian Biology

Introduced freshwater blenny influences the diet and body condition of the invasive dice snake in Lake Geneva

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Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite loci for two species of Spinturnicid bat wing mites (Spinturnix myoti and Spinturnix bechsteini)

Laboulbeniales (Fungi: Ascomycota) infection of bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) from Miniopterus schreibersii across Europe.

scientific article published on 5 July 2018

Last-come, best served? Mosquito biting order and Plasmodium transmission

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Latrocimicinae completes the phylogeny of Cimicidae: meeting old morphologic data rather than modern host phylogeny

scientific article published on 3 September 2021

Longevity differs among sexes but is not affected by repeated immune activation in voles (Microtus arvalis)

Mating triggers dynamic immune regulations in wood ant queens

scientific article published on 17 December 2008

Mites as biological tags of their hosts.

scientific article

Modelling bat distributions and diversity in a mountain landscape using focal predictors in ensemble of small models

scientific article published in 2019

Modification of sperm fatty acid composition during epididymal maturation in bats

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Molecular cophylogenetic relationships between European bats and their ectoparasitic mites (Acari, Spinturnicidae).

scientific article published on 21 February 2009

Natural malaria infection reduces starvation resistance of nutritionally stressed mosquitoes

scientific article

North-African house martins endure greater haemosporidian infection than their European counterparts

article by Juan van Rooyen et al published 26 March 2014 in Journal of Avian Biology

Of great tits and fleas: sleep baby sleep . .

article by Philippe Christe et al published December 1996 in Animal Behaviour

Origin-related, environmental, sex, and age determinants of immunocompetence, susceptibility to ectoparasites, and disease symptoms in the barn owl

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Oxygen consumption in offspring tawny owls Strix aluco is associated with colour morph of foster mother

Paternal investment affects prevalence of malaria

scientific article

Patterns of human interaction with snow leopard and co-predators in the Mongolian western Altai: Current issues and perspectives

scientific article published in 2020

Plasmodium infection and oxidative status in breeding great tits, Parus major

scientific article

Polyctenidae (Hemiptera: Cimicoidea) species in the Afrotropical region: Distribution, host specificity, and first insights to their molecular phylogeny

scientific article published in October 2022

Potential evidence of parasite avoidance in an avian malarial vector

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Presence and diversity of Chlamydiae bacteria in Spinturnix myoti, an ectoparasite of bats

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

Prevalence and diversity of haemosporidian parasites in the yellow-rumped warbler hybrid zone

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

Prophylaxis with resin in wood ants

scientific article (publication date: April 2008)

Relative effects of urbanisation, deforestation, and agricultural development on mosquito communities

scientific article published on 20 March 2023

Response of bat species to sylvo-pastoral abandonment

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Roost selection and switching in two forest-dwelling bats: implications for forest management

Senescence in cell oxidative status in two bird species with contrasting life expectancy

scientific article

Sex-biased parasitism in vector-borne disease: Vector preference?

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Signs of a vector's adaptive choice: on the evasion of infectious hosts and parasite-induced mortality

scientific article published in 2014

Spatio-temporal population genetic structure of the parasitic mite Spinturnix bechsteini is shaped by its own demography and the social system of its bat host

scientific article published on 7 August 2009

Support for a colleague

scientific article

Surveillance Studies Reveal Diverse and Potentially Pathogenic-Incriminated Vector Mosquito Species across Major Botswana Touristic Hotspots

scientific article published on 06 October 2021

Surveillance for European bat lyssavirus in Swiss bats

scientific article

Temporal changes in mosquito abundance (Culex pipiens), avian malaria prevalence and lineage composition.

scientific article

Testing Local Adaptation in a Natural Great Tit-Malaria System: An Experimental Approach

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

Testing the competitive exclusion principle using various niche parameters in a native (Natrix maura) and an introduced (N. tessellata) colubrid

Testing the predictive adaptive response in a host-parasite system

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The effect of dietary antioxidant supplementation in a vertebrate host on the infection dynamics and transmission of avian malaria to the vector.

scientific article published on 9 May 2018

The effect of host social system on parasite population genetic structure: comparative population genetics of two ectoparasitic mites and their bat hosts

scientific article published on 30 January 2014

The energetic grooming costs imposed by a parasitic mite (Spinturnix myoti) upon its bat host (Myotis myotis)

scientific article published in 2001

The evolutionary host switches of Polychromophilus: a multi-gene phylogeny of the bat malaria genus suggests a second invasion of mammals by a haemosporidian parasite

scientific article published in 2012

The importance of host spatial distribution for parasite specialization and speciation: a comparative study of bird fleas (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae)

scientific article published in 2002

The influence of environmental conditions on immune responses, morphology and recapture probability of nestling house martins (Delichon urbica)

article by Philippe Christe et al published February 2001 in Oecologia

The predation cost of being a male: implications for sex-specific rates of ageing

scientific article published in 2006

The presence of conifer resin decreases the use of the immune system in wood ants

scientific article published in 2008

Thermal energetics and torpor in the common pipistrelle bat, Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Vespertilionidae: Mammalia).

scientific article published on 26 June 2011

Twofold cost of reproduction: an increase in parental effort leads to higher malarial parasitaemia and to a decrease in resistance to oxidative stress.

scientific article published on 14 September 2011

Vector‐borne protozoan and bacterial pathogen occurrence and diversity in ectoparasites of the Egyptian Rousette bat

scientific article published on 10 January 2023

Wood ants use resin to protect themselves against pathogens

scientific article published in August 2007

Worldwide impacts of landscape anthropization on mosquito abundance and diversity: A meta‐analysis

scientific article published on 27 September 2022