Jessica L. Hite

The paper links antimicrobial use (AMU) on dairy farms to variations in resistance gene profiles across cattle groups, showing that higher AMU correlates with increased resistance to certain drug classes.

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.

This paper develops an eco-evolutionary model to show how environmental heterogeneity and resource availability influence competition between drug-sensitive and drug-resistant microbes, revealing that resource-efficient strains better suppress resistance in heterogeneous environments.

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

This study uses ddPCR and Bayesian path analysis to link land-use changes to parasite dynamics in freshwater ecosystems, finding a positive correlation between deforestation and copepod density.

This study assesses antimicrobial resistance in freshwater fish by integrating molecular measurements with geospatial modeling to identify environmental factors linked to AMR gene distribution.

This study examines the fitness consequences of parasite exposure versus infection in copepods, finding that exposure to sympatric parasites incurs lower fitness costs than exposure to allopatric parasites.

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 develops a droplet digital PCR assay to detect and quantify rare helminth parasites in environmental samples, demonstrating its sensitivity and applicability across multiple helminth systems.

This paper develops a theory showing that parasite-mediated anorexia can increase or decrease virulence evolution depending on dietary context, with implications for managing disease through host nutrition.