PREDATOR‐INDUCED DEFENSE MAKES DAPHNIA MORE VULNERABLE TO PARASITES

Complex social contagion makes networks more vulnerable to disease outbreaks

Social network analysis is now widely used to investigate the dynamics of infectious disease spread. Vaccination dramatically disrupts disease transmission on a contact network, and indeed, high vaccination rates can potentially halt disease transmission altogether. Here, we build on mounting evidence that health behaviors - such as vaccination, and refusal thereof - can spread across social ne...

Making Light Forces Smaller/More Dispersible Has Benefits But Makes Them More Vulnerable and Less Capable

IN CHAPTER THREE WE EXAMINED some relatively near-term upgrades to improve the capability of light forces when placed in rapid-reaction missions, working mostly with RFPI concepts and technologies within the context of ACTDs. But what would be the impact of changing concepts—for example, making light forces smaller and more dispersed? Given that the dramatic improvements in precision-guided and...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Genetic diversity of Daphnia magna populations enhances resistance to parasites

Letters 898 Mass invariance of population nitrogen flux by terrestrial mammalian herbivores: an extension of the energetic equivalence rule Christopher W. Habeck & Timothy D. Meehan 904 A general framework for the distance–decay of similarity in ecological communities Hélène Morlon, George Chuyong, Richard Condit, Stephen Hubbell, David Kenfack, Duncan Thomas, Renato Valencia & Jessica L. Green...

Genetic diversity of Daphnia magna populations enhances resistance to parasites.

The diversity-disease hypothesis states that decreased genetic diversity in host populations increases the incidence of diseases caused by pathogens (= monoculture effect) and eventually influences ecosystem functioning. The monoculture effect is well-known from crop studies and may be partially specific to the artificial situation in agriculture. The effect received little attention in animal ...