Ben A. Flanagan

The paper shows host immune strategies affect parasite transmission timing and magnitude in a helminth parasite, with intermediate parasite burdens maximizing transmission potential.

The paper reared stickleback embryos from 27 lake populations in a lab to determine if trait-environment correlations reflect heritable evolution or plasticity, finding both heritable and plastic traits.

The paper investigates immune variation in threespine stickleback populations by analyzing fibrosis responses to parasites and environmental factors.

The paper tests macroevolutionary stability of transcriptomic responses to an immune challenge across 15 jawed fish species, finding inconsistent gene expression patterns despite conserved phenotypic responses.

This study shows rapid genome-wide adaptive introgression in threespine stickleback following immigration, with beneficial alleles driving evolutionary change.

This study examines sex- and age-specific gene expression influenced by mitochondria in a species without sex chromosomes, finding sex-dimorphic energy metabolism and mito-nuclear interactions.