PUBLICATIONS

Research publications:

Mixed infections and the evolution of virulence: effects of resource competition, parasite plasticity and impaired host immunity
Marc Choisy & Jacobus C. de Roode
The American Naturalist, in press (2009)

Host-parasite genetic interactions and virulence-transmission relationships in natural populations of monarch butterflies
Jacobus C. de Roode & Sonia Altizer
Evolution, in press (2009)

Strength in numbers: high parasite burdens increase transmission of a protozoan parasite of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus)
Jacobus C. de Roode, Jean Chi, Rachel M. Rarick & Sonia Altizer
Oecologia 161, 67-75 (2009)

Virulence-transmission trade-offs and population divergence in virulence in a naturally occurring butterfly parasite
Jacobus C. de Roode, Andrew J. Yates & Sonia Altizer
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105, 7489-7494 (2008)

Host plant species affects virulence in monarch butterfly parasites
Jacobus C. de Roode, Amy B. Pedersen, Mark D. Hunter & Sonia Altizer
Journal of Animal Ecology 77, 120-126 (2008)

The dynamics of acute malaria infections. I. Effect of the parasite’s red blood cell preference
Rustom Antia, Andrew Yates & Jacobus C. de Roode
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences 275, 1449-1458 (2008)

Virulence determinants in a natural butterfly-parasite system
Jacobus C. de Roode, Laura R. Gold, & Sonia Altizer
Parasitology 134: 657-668 (2007)

Competitive release and facilitation of drug-resistant parasites after therapeutic chemotherapy in a rodent malaria model
Andrew R. Wargo, Silvie Huijben, Jacobus C. de Roode, James Shepherd & Andrew F. Read
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104, 19914-19919 (2007)  

Transmission stage investment of malaria parasites in response to in-host competition
Andrew R. Wargo, Jacobus C. de Roode, Silvie Huijben, Damien R. Drew & Andrew F. Read
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences 274: 2759-2768 (2007)

Within-host competition in genetically diverse malaria infections: parasite virulence and competitive success
Andrew S. Bell, Jacobus C. de Roode, Derek Sim & Andrew F. Read
Evolution 60: 1358-1371 (2006)

The role of immune-mediated apparent competition in genetically diverse malaria infections
Lars Råberg, Jacobus C. de Roode, Andrew S. Bell, Panagiota Stamou, David Gray & Andrew F. Read
The American Naturalist 168: 41-53 (2006)

Dynamics of multiple infection and within-host competition in genetically diverse malaria infections
Jacobus C. de Roode, Michelle E.H. Helinski, M. Ali Anwar & Andrew F. Read
The American Naturalist 166: 531-542 (2005)

Virulence and competitive ability in genetically diverse malaria infections
Jacobus C. de Roode, Riccardo Pansini, Sandra J. Cheesman, Michelle E.H. Helinski, Silvie Huijben, Andrew R. Wargo, Andrew. S. Bell, Brian H.K. Chan, David Walliker, & Andrew F. Read
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102: 7624-7628 (2005)

Competitive release of drug resistance following drug treatment of genetically diverse Plasmodium chabaudi infections
Jacobus C. de Roode, Richard Culleton, Andrew S. Bell & Andrew F. Read
Malaria Journal 3: 33 (2004)

Host heterogeneity is a determinant of competitive exclusion or coexistence in genetically diverse malaria infections
Jacobus C. de Roode, Richard Culleton, Sandra J. Cheesman, Richard Carter, & Andrew F. Read
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences 271: 1073-1080 (2004)

Rodent malaria parasites suffer from the presence of conspecific clones in three-clone Plasmodium chabaudi infections
Jacobus C. de Roode, Andrew F. Read, Brian H.K. Chan & Margaret J. Mackinnon
Parasitology 127: 411-418 (2003)

Real-time quantitative PCR for analysis of genetically mixed infections of malaria parasites: technique validation and applications
Sandra J. Cheesman, Jacobus C. de Roode, Andrew F. Read & Richard Carter
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 131: 83-91 (2003)

Scientific commentaries:

Evolution and ecology, after the malaria genomes
Jacobus C. de Roode & Andrew F. Read
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18, 60-61 (2003)

Articles on our research in the press:

Researchers marry data and mathematical models to reveal dynamics of malarial infection
Woodruff Health Sciences Center (Apr 29, 2008)

For treating malaria, less drugs may be best drugs
Science Daily (Nov 27, 2007)

Monitoring the monarch
Michelle MacLachlan
Athens Banner-Herald (March 12, 2007)  

Survivor: piece of an evolutionary puzzle
Laurie Anderson
UGA Research Magazine (Fall, 2006)