Selected publications by topic
EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY
BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF SCHISTOSOMIASIS
FOOD WEBS
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
POPULATION BIOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL PARASITOLOGY
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
FISHERIES
INVASION BIOLOGY
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
PARASITE BIOLOGY
DESCRIPTIVE PARASITE ECOLOGY
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| EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY |
 | Hechinger RF, KD Lafferty, FT Mancini III, and AM Kuris. 2008. How large is the hand inside the puppet? Ecological and evolutionary effects on the mass of trematode parasitic castrators in their snail host. DOI 10.1007/s10682-008-9262-4. pdf
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| Hall, S. R., K. D. Lafferty, J. M. Brown, C. E. Caceres, J. M. Chase, A. P. Dobson, R. D. Holt, C. G. Jones, S. E. Randolph, and P. Rohani. 2008. Is infectious disease just another type of consumer-resource interaction? Pages 223-241 in R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner, eds. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Disease on Ecosystems and of Ecosystems on Disease. Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York.
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| Fredensborg, B. L., Poulin, R., 2005. Larval helminths in intermediate hosts: Does competition early in life determine the fitness of adult parasites? International Journal for Parasitology, 35, 1061-1070. pdf
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| Miura, O, Kuris, AM, Torchin, ME, Hechinger, RF, Dunham, EJ, Chiba, S. (2005). Molecular-genetic analyses reveal cryptic species of trematodes in the intertidal gastropod, Batillaria cumingi (Crosse). International Journal for Parasitology 35(7): 793-801. pdf
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| Kuris, AM. (2005). Trophic transmission of parasites and host behavior modification. Behavioural Processes 68(3): 215-217. pdf
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| Kuris, AM, Norton, SF. (1985). Evolutionary importance of overspecialization - insect parasitoids as an example. American Naturalist 126(3): 387-391. pdf
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| Choisy M, Brown S, Lafferty KD, Thomas F. 2003. Evolution of trophic transmission in parasites: why add intermediate hosts? American Naturalist 162: 172-81 pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Kuris AM. 2002. Trophic strategies, animal diversity and body size. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17: 507-13 pdf
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| Rigby, MC, RF Hechinger, and L Stevens. 2002. Why should parasite resistance be costly? Trends in Parasitology 18:116-120. pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Thomas F, Poulin R. 2000. Evolution of host phenotype manipulation by parasites and its consequences. In Evolutionary Biology of Host-Parasite Relationships: Theory Meets Reality, ed. R Poulin, S Morand, A Skorping, pp. 117-28. Amsterdam: Elsevier
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| Lafferty KD. 1999. The evolution of trophic transmission. Parasitology Today 15: 111-5 pdf
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| Lafferty KD. 1993. The marine snail, Cerithidea californica, matures at smaller sizes where parasitism is high. Oikos 68: 3-11 pdf
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| Kuris, AM, Blaustein, AR, Alio, JJ. (1980). Hosts as islands. American Naturalist 116(4): 570-586. pdf
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| Kuris, AM, Blaustein, AR. (1977). Ectoparasitic mites on rodents - application of island biogeography theory. Science 195(4278): 596-597. pdf
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| Kuris, AM. (1974). Trophic interactions - similarity of parasitic castrators to parasitoids. Quarterly Review of Biology 49(2): 129-148. pdf
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| BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF SCHISTOSOMIASIS |
| Report of the Field Mission to Consider Schistosomiasis Biological Control for the Lower Senegal River Basin. pdf
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| Mkoji, GM, Hofkin, BV, Kuris, AM, Stewart-Oaten, A, Mungai, BN, Kihara, JH, Mungai, F, Yundu, J, Mbui, J, Rashid, JR, Kariuki, CH, Ouma, JH, Koech, DK, Loker, ES. (1999). Impact of the crayfish Procambarus clarkii on Schistosoma haematobium transmission in Kenya. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 61(5): 751-759. pdf
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| Kuris, AM. (1973). Biological control - implications of analogy between trophic interactions of insect pest parasitoid and snail trematode systems. Experimental Parasitology 33(2): 365-379. pdf
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| FOOD WEBS |
| Amundsen, P, KD Lafferty, Knudsen R, Primicerio R, Klemetsen A, Kuris AM. 2009. Food web topology and parasites in the pelagic zone of a subarctic lake. Journal of Animal Ecology 78:563-572. pdf
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| Lafferty, K. D. and A. M. Kuris. In press. Parasites reduce robustness because they are sensitive to secondary extinction in the Carpinteria Salt Marsh. Philosophical Transactions of the Royals Society.
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| Kuris, A. M., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. Whitney, L. Aguirre-Macedo, C. Boch, A. Dobson, E. J. Dunham, B. L. Fredensborg, T. C. Huspeni, J. Lorda, L. Mababa, F. Mancini, A. Mora, M. Pickering, N. Talhouk, M. E. Torchin, and K. D. Lafferty. 2008. Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries. Nature 454:515-518. pdf
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| Lafferty, K. D., S. Allesina, M. Arim, C. J. Briggs, G. DeLeo, A. P. Dobson, J. A. Dunne, P. T. Johnson, A. M. Kuris, D. J. Marcogliese, N. D. Martinez, J. Memmott, P. A. Marquet, J. P. McLaughlin, E. A. Mordecai, M. Pascual, R. Poulin, and D. W. Thieltges. 2008. Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links. Ecology Letters 11:533-546. pdf
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| Lafferty KD. 2008. Effects of disease on community interactions and food-web structure. Pages 205-222 in R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner, editors. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Disease on Ecosystems and of Ecosystems on Disease. Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York.
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| Lafferty, K. D., A. P. Dobson, and A. M. Kuris. 2006. Parasites dominate food web links. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:11211-11216. pdf
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| Hudson, P. J., A. P. Dobson, and K. D. Lafferty. 2006. Parasites and ecological systems: is a healthy system one with many parasites? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 21:381-385. pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Hechinger RF, Shaw JC, Whitney KL, Kuris AM. 2006. Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. In Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics, ed. S Collinge, C Ray, pp. 119-34. Oxford: Oxford University Press pdf
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| Dobson A, Lafferty KD, Kuris AM. 2005. Parasites and food webs. In Ecological Networks: Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs, ed. M Pascual, JA Dunne, pp. 119-35. Oxford: Oxford University Press
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| COMMUNITY ECOLOGY |
| Hechinger RF, KD Lafferty, and AM Kuris. 2008. Diversity increases biomass for trematode parasitic castrators in snails. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences. doi 10.1098/rspb.2008.0875. pdf
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| Kuris, A. M., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. Whitney, L. Aguirre-Macedo, C. Boch, A. Dobson, E. J. Dunham, B. L. Fredensborg, T. C. Huspeni, J. Lorda, L. Mababa, F. Mancini, A. Mora, M. Pickering, N. Talhouk, M. E. Torchin, and K. D. Lafferty. 2008. Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries. Nature 454:515-518. pdf
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| Dobson A, KD Lafferty, AM Kuris, RF Hechinger, and W Jetz. 2008. Homage to Linneaus: How many parasites? How many hosts? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:11482-11489 pdf
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| Lafferty, K. D., K. F. Smith, and E. M. P. Madin. 2007. The infectiousness of terrorist ideology: insights from ecology and epidemiology. Pages 186-206 in R. Sagarin and T. Taylor, editors. Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
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| Smith, K. E., D. E. Sax, and K. D. Lafferty. 2006. Evidence for the role of infectious disease in species extinction and endangerment. Conservation Biology 20:1349-1357. pdf
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| Lafferty KD. 2002. Interspecific interactions in trematode communities. In The Behavioral Ecology of Parasites, ed. EE Lewis, MVK Sukhdeo, JF Campbell, pp. 153-69. Wallingford Oxon: CAB International
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| Bush AO, Lafferty KD, Lotz JM, Shostak AW. 1997. Parasitology meets ecology on its own terms: Margolis et al revisited. Journal of Parasitology 83: 575-83 pdf
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| Lafferty KD. 1997. The ecology of parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. In Parasites and Pathogens: Effects on Host Hormones and Behavior, ed. NE Beckage, M Zuk, pp. 316-32. New York: Chapman and Hall
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| Kuris AM, Lafferty KD. 1994. Community structure: larval trematodes in snail hosts. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 25: 189-217 pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Sammond DT, Kuris AM. 1994. Analysis of larval trematode communities. Ecology 75: 2275-85 pdf
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| Fredensborg, B. L., Mouritsen, K. N., Poulin, R. In press. Relating bird host distribution and spatial heterogeneity in trematode infections in an intertidal snail - from small to large scale. Marine Biology. pdf
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| POPULATION BIOLOGY |
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Penfold R, Grutter AS, Kuris AM, McCormick MI, Jones CM, 2008. Interactions between juvenile marine fish and gnathiid isopods: predation versus micropredation . Marine Ecology Progress Series 357, 111-119. pdf
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| Miura O, AM Kuris, ME Torchin, RF Hechinger, and S Chiba. 2006.Parasites alter host phenotype and create a new ecological niche for snail hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Series B: Biological Sciences 273:1323-1328. pdf
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Fredensborg, B. L., Mouritsen, K. N., Poulin, R., 2005. Impact of trematodes on host recruitment, survival and population density in the intertidal gastropod Zeacumantus subcarinatus. Marine Ecology Progress Series 290, 109-117. pdf
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| Fredensborg, B. L., Mouritsen, K. N., Poulin, R., 2004. Intensity-dependent mortality of Paracalliope novizealandiae (Amphipoda: Crustacea) infected by a trematode: Experimental infections and field observations. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 311, 253-265. pdf
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| McCallum HI, Kuris AM, Harvell CD, Lafferty KD, Smith GW, Porter J. 2004. Does terrestrial epidemiology apply to marine systems? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19: 585-91 pdf
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| Lafferty KD. 1993. Effects of parasitic castration on growth, reproduction and population dynamics of the marine snail Cerithidea californica. Marine Ecology Progress Series 96: 229-37
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| ENVIRONMENTAL PARASITOLOGY |
| Lafferty, K. D. 2009. Calling for an ecological approach to studying climate change
and infectious diseases. Ecology 90(4) 932-933 pdf
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| Lafferty, K. D. 2009. The ecology of climate change and infectious diseases. Ecology 90(4) 888-900 pdf
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| Hechinger RF, KD Lafferty, and AM Kuris. 2008. Trematodes indicate biodiversity in the Chilean intertidal zone and Lake Tanganyika. Journal of Parasitology.
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| Lafferty, K. D., J. C. Shaw, and A. M. Kuris. 2008. Reef fishes have higher parasite richness at unfished Palmyra Atoll compared to fished Kiritimati Island. EcoHealth 5: 338-345 pdf
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| Hechinger, R. F., K. D. Lafferty, T. C. Huspeni, A. Brooks, and A. M. Kuris. 2007. Can parasites be indicators of free-living diversity? Relationships between species richness and the abundance of larval trematodes and of local fishes and benthos. Oecologia 151:82-92 pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Dunham EJ. 2005. Trematodes in snails near raccoon latrines suggest a final host role for this mammal in California salt marshes. Journal of Parasitology 91: 474-6 pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Hechinger RF, Lorda J, Soler L. 2005. Trematodes associated with mangrove habitat in Puerto Rican salt marshes. Journal of Parasitology 91: 697-9 pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Kuris AM. 2005. Parasitism and environmental disturbances. In Parasitism and ecosystems, ed. F Thomas, JF Guégan, F Renaud, pp. 113-23. Oxford: Oxford pdf only references
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| Hechinger RF, Lafferty KD. 2005. Host diversity begets parasite diversity: bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 272: 1059-66 pdf
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| Huspeni TC, Hechinger RF, Lafferty KD. 2005. Trematode parasites as estuarine indicators: opportunities, applications and comparisons with conventional community approaches. In Estuarine Indicators, ed. SA Bortone, pp. 297-314. Boca Raton: CRC Press pdf
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| Huspeni TC, Lafferty KD. 2004. Using larval trematodes that parasitize snails to evaluate a salt-marsh restoration project. Ecological Applications 14: 795-804 pdf
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| Lafferty KD. 2003. Is disease increasing or decreasing, and does it impact or maintain biodiversity. Journal of Parasitology 89: S101-S5
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| Lafferty KD. 1997. Environmental parasitology: What can parasites tell us about human impacts on the environment? Parasitology Today 13: 251-5 pdf
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| CONSERVATION BIOLOGY |
| Whitney, K. L., R. F. Hechinger, A. M. Kuris, and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. Endangered light-footed clapper rail affects parasite community structure in coastal wetlands. Ecological Applications 17:1694-1702 pdf
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| Gerber LR, McCallum HI, Lafferty KD, Sabo JL, Dobson AP. 2005. Exposing extinction risk analysis to pathogens: is disease just another form of density dependence? Ecological Applications 15: 1402-14 pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Porter J, Ford SE. 2004. Are diseases increasing in the ocean? Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 35: 31-54 pdf
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| Ward JR, Lafferty KD. 2004. The elusive baseline of marine disease: Are diseases in ocean ecosystems increasing? Public Library of Science Biology 2: 542-7 pdf
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| Packer C, Holt RD, Hudson PJ, Lafferty KD, Dobson AP. 2003. Keeping the herds healthy and alert: implications of predator control for infectious disease. Ecology Letters 6: 797-802 pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Holt RD. 2003. How should environmental stress affect the population dynamics of disease? Ecology Letters 6: 797-802 pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Gerber L. 2002. Good medicine for conservation biology: the intersection of epidemiology and conservation theory. Conservation Biology 16: 593-604 pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Kuris AM. 1999. How environmental stress affects the impacts of parasites. Limnology and Oceanography 44: 925-31 pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Kuris AM. 1993. Mass mortality of abalone Haliotis cracherodii on the California Channel Islands: Tests of epidemiological hypotheses. Marine Ecology Progress Series 96: 239-48 pdf
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| FISHERIES |
| Lafferty KD. 2004. Fishing for lobsters indirectly increases epidemics in sea urchins. Ecological Applications 14: 1566-73 pdf
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| Behrens MD, Lafferty KD. 2004. Effects of marine reserves and urchin disease on southern California rocky reef communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 279: 129-39 pdf
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| Harvell D, Aronson R, Baron N, Connell J, Dobson A, et al. 2004. The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2: 375-82 Ecosystems
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| Kuris AM, Lafferty KD. 1992. Modelling crustacean fisheries: effects of parasites on management strategies. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 49: 327-36. pdf
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| Kuris, AM, Blau, SF, Paul, AJ, Shields, JD, Wickham, DE. (1991). Infestation by brood symbionts and their impact on egg mortality of the Red King Crab, Paralithodes camtschatica, in Alaska - geographic and temporal variation. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 48(4): 559-568.
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| INVASION BIOLOGY |
| Perkins, S., S. Altizer, O. Bjornstad, J. Burdon, K. Clay, L. Gomez-Aparicio, J. Jeschke, P. Johnson, K. Lafferty, C. Malstrom, P. Martin, A. Power, P. Thrall, D. Strayer, and M. Uriarte. 2008. Infectious disease in invasion biology. Pages 179-204 in R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner, editors. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Disease on Ecosystems and of Ecosystems on Disease. Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York.
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| Kuris, A. M., J. H. R. Goddard, M. E. Torchin, N. Murphy, R. Gurney, and K. D. Lafferty. 2007. An experimental evaluation of host specificity: The role of encounter and compatibility filters for a rhizocephalan parasite of crabs. International Journal for Parasitology 37:539-545. pdf
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| Miura O, ME Torchin, AM Kuris, RF Hechinger, and S Chiba. 2006.Introduced cryptic species of parasite exhibit different invasion pathways. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:19818-19823. pdf
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| Ruiz GM, Lorda J, Arnwine A, and Lion K. 2006. Shipping Patterns Associated with the Panama Canal: Effects on Biotic Exchange? In: Bridging Divides - Maritime Canals as Invasion Corridors, ed. S Gollasch, B Galil, and A Cohen, pp 113-126. Springer, Dordrecht. pdf
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| Goddard JHR, Torchin ME, Kuris AM, Lafferty KD. 2005. Host specificity of Sacculina carcini, a potential biological control agent of the introduced European green crab Carcinus maenas in California. Biological Invasions 7: 895-912 pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Smith KF, Torchin ME, Dobson AP, Kuris AM. 2005. The role of infectious disease in natural communities: what introduced species tell us. In Species Invasions: Insights into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography, ed. DF Sax, JJ Stachowicz, SD Gaines. Sunderland, Mass: Sinauer pdf
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| Torchin ME, Huspeni TC, Hechinger RF, Lafferty KD. 2005. The introduced ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa) in Estero de Punta Banda, Mexico: interactions with the native cord grass, Spartina foliosa. Biological Invasions 7: 607-14 pdf
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| Torchin ME, Lafferty KD, Dobson AP, McKenzie VJ, Kuris AM. 2003. Introduced species and their missing parasites. Nature 421: 628-30 pdf
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| Torchin ME, Lafferty KD, Kuris AM. 2002. Parasites and marine invasions. Parasitology 124: S137-S51 pdf
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| Torchin ME, Lafferty KD, Kuris AM. 2001. Release from parasites as natural enemies: increased performance of a globally introduced marine crab. Biological Invasions 3: 333-45 pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Kuris AM. 1996. Biological control of marine pests. Ecology 77: 1989-2000 pdf
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| BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION |
| Shaw, JC, WJ Korzan, RE Carpenter, AM Kuris, KD Lafferty, CH Summers, Ø Øverli. 2009. Parasite manipulation of brain monoamines in California killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis) by the trematode Euhaplorchis californiensis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 276: 1137-1146.pdf
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| Lafferty KD. 2005. Look what the cat dragged in: do parasites contribute to human cultural diversity? Behavioural Processes 68: 279-82 pdf
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| Lafferty KD, Morris AK. 1996. Altered behavior of parasitized killifish increases susceptibility to predation by bird final hosts. Ecology 77: 1390-7 pdf
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| Lafferty KD. 1992. Foraging on prey that are modified by parasites. American Naturalist 140: 854-67 pdf
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| PARASITE BIOLOGY |
| Rigby MC, RSK Sharma, RF Hechinger, TR Platt, and JC Weaver. 2008. Two new species of Camallanus (Nematoda: Spirurida: Camallanidae) from freshwater turtles in Queensland, Australia. Journal of Parasitology.
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| Hechinger RF. 2007. Annotated key to the trematode species infecting Batillaria attramentaria (Prosobranchia: Batillariidae) as a first intermediate host. Parasitology International. pdf
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| Gurney, RH, Rybakov AV, Høeg, JT, Kuris, AM. Sacculina nectocarcini, a new species of rhizocephalan parasitising the red rock crab Nectocarcinus integrifrons, 2006 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae). Zootaxa 1332: 37-50 pdf
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| Fredensborg, B. L., Poulin, R., 2005. In vitro cultivation of Maritrema novaezelandensis (Microphallidae): The effect of culture medium on excystation, survival and egg-production. Parasitology Research, 95, 310-313. pdf
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| DESCRIPTIVE PARASITE ECOLOGY |
| Shaw J, Aguirre-Macedo L, Lafferty KD. 2005. An efficient strategy to estimate intensity and prevalence: sampling metacercariae in fishes. Journal of Parasitology 91: 515-21 pdf
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