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List of works by Tom J. Little

A parasite-mediated life-history shift in Daphnia magna

scientific article (publication date: 7 March 2005)

A shared mechanism of defense against predators and parasites: chitin regulation and its implications for life-history theory

scientific article published on 20 November 2013

Abundant asexuality in tropical freshwater ostracodes

Adaptive evolution of a stress response protein

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Alternative splicing of the Anopheles gambiae Dscam gene in diverse Plasmodium falciparum infections

scientific article published in 2011

An ancient immunity gene duplication in Daphnia magna: RNA expression and sequence analysis of two nitric oxide synthase genes

scientific article published on 18 May 2009

An animal model to evaluate the function and regulation of the adaptively evolving stress protein SEP53 in oesophageal bile damage responses

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Bigger is better: changes in body size explain a maternal effect of food on offspring disease resistance

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

CRISPR-mediated phage resistance and the ghost of coevolution past

scientific article (publication date: 22 July 2010)

Caging and Uncaging Genetics

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Candidate innate immune system gene expression in the ecological model Daphnia

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Correction: Empirical Support for Optimal Virulence in a Castrating Parasite.

scientific article published on 29 June 2009

Daphnia magna microRNAs respond to nutritional stress and ageing but are not transgenerational.

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Daphnia magna modifies its gene expression extensively in response to caloric restriction revealing a novel effect on haemoglobin isoform preference

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Daphnia magna shows reduced infection upon secondary exposure to a pathogen

scientific article published on 8 August 2012

Daphnia magna transcriptome by RNA-Seq across 12 environmental stressors

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Daphnia magna transcriptome by RNA-Seq across 12 environmental stressors

scientific article published on 31 January 2017

Deforestation and vectorial capacity of Anopheles gambiae Giles mosquitoes in malaria transmission, Kenya

scientific article published on October 2008

Disease spread in age structured populations with maternal age effects.

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Ecological and evolutionary implications of immunological priming in invertebrates

scientific article published in February 2004

Effects of juvenile host density and food availability on adult immune response, parasite resistance and virulence in a Daphnia-parasite system

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Elevated haemocyte number is associated with infection and low fitness potential in wild Daphnia magna

scientific article published in 2012

Elevated maternal temperature enhances offspring disease resistance in Daphnia magna

scientific article published in 2013

Empirical support for optimal virulence in a castrating parasite

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Epidemiological, evolutionary, and coevolutionary implications of context-dependent parasitism

scientific article published on April 2011

Evidence for a cost of immunity when the crustacean Daphnia magna is exposed to the bacterial pathogen Pasteuria ramosa

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Fitness consequences of immune responses: strengthening the empirical framework for ecoimmunology

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Genetic variation in the cellular response of Daphnia magna (Crustacea: Cladocera) to its bacterial parasite.

scientific article published on 9 June 2010

Genome-wide Methylation Patterns Under Caloric Restriction in Daphnia magna

Genome-wide methylation is modified by caloric restriction in Daphnia magna

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Harnessing evolutionary biology to combat infectious disease

scientific article published on 6 February 2012

Host nutrition alters the variance in parasite transmission potential

scientific article published on 13 February 2013

Host-parasite and genotype-by-environment interactions: temperature modifies potential for selection by a sterilizing pathogen.

scientific article published in January 2005

Immune genes undergo more adaptive evolution than non-immune system genes in Daphnia pulex

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Immunity in a variable world

scientific article published on January 2009

Inferring selection in the Anopheles gambiae species complex: an example from immune-related serine protease inhibitors

scientific article published on 04 June 2009

Invertebrate immunity and the limits of mechanistic immunology

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Maternal effects on offspring consumption can stabilize fluctuating predator-prey systems.

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Maternal food quantity affects offspring feeding rate in Daphnia magna

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Maternal transfer of strain-specific immunity in an invertebrate.

scientific article published in March 2003

Mitogenome phylogeographic analysis of a planktonic crustacean

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

Molecular evolution of daphnia immunity genes: polymorphism in a gram-negative binding protein gene and an alpha-2-macroglobulin gene

scientific article published in October 2004

Natural selection drives extremely rapid evolution in antiviral RNAi genes.

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Nucleotide polymorphism and within-gene recombination in Daphnia magna and D. pulex, two cyclical parthenogens

scientific article published on 18 March 2009

Parasite-driven genetic change in a natural population of Daphnia

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Parasite-host specificity: experimental studies on the basis of parasite adaptation

scientific article published in January 2006

Parasitism and breeding system variation in North American populations of Daphnia pulex

scientific article published in 2007

Population-Genomic Analysis Identifies a Low Rate of Global Adaptive Fixation in the Proteins of the Cyclical Parthenogen <i>Daphnia magna</i>

scientific article published in March 2022

ProPhenolOxidase in Daphnia magna: cDNA sequencing and expression in relation to resistance to pathogens

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Rapid change in parasite infection traits over the course of an epidemic in a wild host-parasite population

scientific article published in 2013

Recent and recurrent selective sweeps of the antiviral RNAi gene Argonaute-2 in three species of Drosophila

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Studying immunity at the whole organism level

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Successfully resisting a pathogen is rarely costly in Daphnia magna

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THE CLEARANCE OF HIDDEN CESTODE INFECTION TRIGGERED BY AN INDEPENDENT ACTIVATION OF HOST DEFENSE IN A TELEOST FISH

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Testing small clutch size models with Daphnia.

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The Dscam homologue of the crustacean Daphnia is diversified by alternative splicing like in insects

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The Evolution of Virulence When Parasites Cause Host Castration and Gigantism

scientific article published in 2004

The bacterial parasite Pasteuria ramosa is not killed if it fails to infect: implications for coevolution

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The cellular immune response of Daphnia magna under host-parasite genetic variation and variation in initial dose

scientific article published on 9 May 2012

The coevolution of virulence: tolerance in perspective

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The components of the Daphnia pulex immune system as revealed by complete genome sequencing

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The course of malaria in mice: major histocompatibility complex (MHC) effects, but no general MHC heterozygote advantage in single-strain infections

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The development of pathogen resistance in Daphnia magna: implications for disease spread in age-structured populations

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The evolution of TEP1, an exceptionally polymorphic immunity gene in Anopheles gambiae

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The separate and combined effects of MHC genotype, parasite clone, and host gender on the course of malaria in mice

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Transcriptome profiling during a natural host-parasite interaction.

scientific article published on 28 August 2015