Sarah Elizabeth DuRant

The study shows that prior infection with Mycoplasma gallisepticum in birds leads to partial immunity lasting three years, reducing transmission within flocks.

The paper investigates how the nutritional quality of anthropogenic food affects disease transmission in wildlife, finding that lower quality food leads to larger epidemics and population declines.

The paper examines how diet affects host tolerance to a bacterial pathogen in birds, finding that protein-fed birds show greater transcriptional priming and tolerance during recovery.

This study shows that a high lipid diet increases pathology and reduces tolerance in canaries infected with Mycoplasma gallisepticum compared to a high protein diet.