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.

The paper examines how thermal variability and mean temperature affect incubation behaviors in Scaled Quail and Northern Bobwhite across different timescales, finding that high thermal variability reduces off-bout length and that behavioral responses vary with temporal scale.

The paper shows male-biased pathology, not behavior, drives sex-dependent transmission in an avian host-pathogen system.