The impact of varying class sizes on epidemic spread in a university population

Autor: Alex Best, Prerna Singh, Charlotte Ward, Caterina Vitale, Megan Oliver, Laminu Idris, Alison Poulston

Publikováno v: Royal Society Open Science, Vol 8, Iss 6 (2021)

A common non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) during the COVID-19 pandemic has been group size limits. Furthermore, educational settings of schools and universities have either fully closed or reduced their class sizes. As countries begin to reopen

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The effect of temporal fluctuations on the evolution of host tolerance to parasitism

Autor: Charlotte Ferris, Alex Best

Publikováno v: Theoretical Population Biology. 130:182-190

There are many mechanisms that hosts can evolve to defend against parasites, two of which are resistance and tolerance. These defences often have different evolutionary behaviours, and it is important to consider how each individual mechanism may res

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2019.07.015

Author response for 'Simultaneous evolution of host resistance and tolerance to parasitism'

Autor: Prerna Singh, Alex Best

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https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13947/v3/response1

Evolutionarily stable strategies are well studied in periodically fluctuating populations

Autor: Ben Ashby, Alex Best

Publikováno v: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Best, A & Ashby, B 2021, ' Evolutionarily stable strategies are well studied in periodically fluctuating populations ', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 118, no. 18, e2102001118 . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102001118
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Grunert et al. (1) examine evolutionarily stable strategies (ESSs) of a predator−prey system where the population dynamics either tend to an equilibrium or fluctuate periodically. The authors claim to have “extended the ESS concept to be applicab

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The evolution of host resistance and parasite infectivity is highest in seasonal resource environments that oscillate at intermediate amplitudes

Autor: Michael A. Brockhurst, Rosanna C. T. Wright, Charlotte Ferris, Alex Best

Publikováno v: Ferris, C, Wright, R, Brockhurst, M A & Best, A 2020, ' The evolution of host resistance and parasite infectivity is highest in seasonal resource environments that oscillate at intermediate amplitudes ', Proceedings. Biological sciences, vol. 287, no. 1927 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0787
Proc Biol Sci

Seasonal environments vary in their amplitude of oscillation but the effects of this temporal heterogeneity for host–parasite coevolution are poorly understood. Here, we combined mathematical modelling and experimental evolution of a coevolving bac

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