Publications

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2023

Pfenning-Butterworth AC, Vetter RE^*, and Hite JL. 2023. Natural variation in host feeding behaviors impacts host disease and pathogen transmission potential. Ecology and Evolution. In press.

Hite JL, Pfenning-Butterworth AC, and Auld SKJR. 2023. Infectious disease: the ecological theatre and the evolutionary play. Evolutionary Ecology. In press.

Pfenning-Butterworth AC and Sparkes TC. 2023. Evolutionary history and host ecology determine acanthocephalan egg shape. Evolutionary Biology. In press.

2022

Pfenning-Butterworth AC, Nguyen DT, Hite JL, and Cressler CE. 2022. Circadian rhythms mediate infection risk in Daphnia dentifera. Ecology and Evolution 12 (9), e9264. DOI:10.1002/ece3.9264

Pfenning-Butterworth AC, Cooper RO, and Cressler CE. 2022. Daily feeding rhythm linked to microbiome composition in two zooplankton species. PLoS ONE 17(2): e0263538. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0263538

2021

Pfenning-Butterworth AC, Amato K^*, and Cressler CE. 2021. Circadian rhythm in feeding behavior of Daphnia dentifera. Journal of Biological Rhythms 36(6): 589-594. DOI:10.1177/07487304211054404

Pfenning-Butterworth AC, Davies TJ, and Cressler CE. 2021. Identifying co-phylogenetic hotspots for zoonotic disease. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 376(1837): 20200363. DOI:10.1098/rstb.2020.0363

2020

Hite JL, Pfenning-Butterworth AC, Vetter RE^*, and Cressler CE. 2020. A high-throughput method to quantify feeding rates in aquatic organisms: a case study with Daphnia. Ecology and Evolution 10(13): 6239-6245. DOI:10.1002/ece3.6352

Hite JL, Pfenning AC, and Cressler CE. 2020. Starving the Enemy? Feeding behavior shapes host-parasite interactions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35(1): 68-80. DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2019.08.004

2019

Pfenning AC and Sparkes TC. 2019. Egg fibrils and transmission in the acanthocephalan Acanthocephalus dirus. Parasitology Research 118: 1225-1229. DOI:10.1007/s00436-019-06251-8

2017

Caddigan SC, Pfenning AC, and Sparkes TC. 2017. Competitive growth, energy allocations and host modification in the acanthocephalan Acanthocephalus dirus: field data. Parasitology Research 116: 199-206. DOI:10.1007/s00436-016-5279-8