Publications

PARASITE BIOLOGY

Armand M. Kuris, Alejandra G. Jaramillo, John P. McLaughlin, Sara B. Weinstein, Ana E. Garcia-Vedrenne, George O. Poinar Jr.*, Maria Pickering†, Michelle L. Steinauer‡, Magaly Espinoza, Jacob E. Ashford, and Gabriela L. P. Dunn. Journal of Parasitology, 101(1): 41–44
Weinstein, S. B., & Lafferty, K. D.. (2015). How do humans affect wildlife nematodes?. Trends in parasitology, 31(5), 222-227. 
Hewson, Ian, Button, Jason B., Gudenkauf, Brent M., Miner, Benjamin, Newton, Alisa L., Gaydos, Joseph K., Wynne, Janna, Groves, Cathy L., Hendler, Gordon, Murray, Michael, Fradkin, Steven, Breitbart, Mya, Fahsbender, Elizabeth, Lafferty, Kevin D., Kilpatrick, A. Marm, Miner, C. Melissa, Raimondi, Peter, Lahner, Lesanna, Friedman, Carolyn S., Daniels, Stephen, Haulena, Martin, Marliave, Jeffrey, Burge, Colleen A., Eisenlord, Morgan E., Harvell, C. Drew. (2014). Densovirus associated with sea-star wasting disease and mass mortality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, 17278-17283.
Weinersmith, K. L., Warinner, C. B., Tan, V., Harris, D. J., Mora, A. B., Kuris, A. M., ... & Hechinger, R. F.. (2014). A lack of crowding? Body size does not decrease with density for two behavior-manipulating parasites. Integrative and comparative biology, icu081.
Alda, P., Bonel, N., Hechinger, R. F., & Martorelli, S. R.. (2013). Maritrema orensense and Maritrema bonaerense (Digenea: Microphallidae): descriptions, life cycles, and comparative morphometric analyses. The Journal of parasitology, 99(2), 218-228.
Hechinger, R. F.. (2012). Faunal survey and identification key for the trematodes (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) infecting Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) as first intermediate host. Zootaxa, 3418, 1-27.
Vidal-Martínez, V. M., Aguirre-Macedo, M. L., McLaughlin, J. P., Hechinger, R. F., Jaramillo, A. G., Shaw, J. C., ... & Lafferty, K. D.. (2012). Digenean metacercariae of fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Eastern Indo-Pacific. Journal of helminthology, 86(04), 493-509.
Rigby, M. C., Sharma, R. S., Hechinger, R. F., Platt, T. R., & Weaver, J. C.. (2008). Two new species of Camallanus (Nematoda: Camallanidae) from freshwater turtles in Queensland, Australia. Journal of Parasitology, 94(6), 1364-1370.
Hechinger, R. F.. (2007). Annotated key to the trematode species infecting Batillaria attramentaria (Prosobranchia: Batillariidae) as first intermediate host. Parasitology international, 56(4), 287-296.
Lafferty, K. D., Smith, K. F., & Madin, E. M.. (2007). The infectiousness of terrorist ideology: insights from ecology and epidemiology. In: Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World (eds. Sagarin, R & Taylor, T). University of California Press Berkeley, CA, pp. 186-206.
Fredensborg, B. L., & Poulin, R.. (2005). In vitro cultivation of Maritrema novaezealandensis (Microphallidae): the effect of culture medium on excystation, survival and egg production. Parasitology research, 95(5), 310-313.

POPULATION BIOLOGY

SB Weinstein, CW Moura, JF Mendez, KD Lafferty. Oikos (early) https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.04866
Buck JC, Hechinger RF, Wood AC, Stewart TE, Kuris AM, Lafferty KD. (2017) Ecology 98: 2029-2038.
Sara B Weinstein, Camille M Lake, Holly M Chastain, David Fisk, Sukwan Handali, Philip L Kahn, Susan P Montgomery, Patricia P Wilkins, Armand M Kuris, Kevin D Lafferty. Emerging infectious diseases 23 (8), 1397
Eirik H Henriksen, Rune Knudsen, Roar Kristoffersen, Armand M Kuris, Kevin D Lafferty, Anna Siwertsson, Per-Arne Amundsen. Hydrobiologia 783 (1), 37-46
Lafferty, K. D.. (2015). Sea otter health: Challenging a pet hypothesis. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 4(3), 291-294. 
Grutter, A. S., Crean, A. J., Curtis, L. M., Kuris, A. M., Warner, R. R., & McCormick, M. I.. (2011). Indirect effects of an ectoparasite reduce successful establishment of a damselfish at settlement. Functional Ecology, 25(3), 586-594.
Lafferty, K. D.. (2009). Calling for an ecological approach to studying climate change and infectious diseases. Ecology, 90(4), 932-933.
Penfold, R., Grutter, A. S., Kuris, A. M., McCormick, M. I., & Jones, C. M.. (2008). Interactions between juvenile marine fish and gnathiid isopods: predation versus micropredation. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 357, 111-119.
Fredensborg, B. L., Mouritsen, K. N., & Poulin, R.. (2005). Impact of trematodes on host survival and population density in the intertidal gastropod Zeacumantus subcarinatus. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 290, 109-117.
Shaw, J. C., Aguirre-Macedo, L., & Lafferty, K. D.. (2005). An efficient strategy to estimate intensity and prevalence: sampling metacercariae in fishes. Journal of Parasitology, 91(3), 515-521.
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(2), 253-265.
McCallum, H. I., Kuris, A., Harvell, C. D., Lafferty, K. D., Smith, G. W., & Porter, J.. (2004). Does terrestrial epidemiology apply to marine systems?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 19(11), 585-591.
Lafferty, K. D.. (1993). Effects of parasitic castration on growth, reproduction and population dynamics of the marine snail Cerithidea californica. MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES, 96, 229-229.