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Assessing perceptions, knowledge and satisfaction with seasonal malaria chemoprevention services: A cross-sectional study in northern Nigeria (2025)
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Introduction: Despite the remarkable progress achieved in the fight against malaria worldwide, the disease still remains a major health concern in Nigeria. In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended using seasonal malaria chemopreventio... Read More about Assessing perceptions, knowledge and satisfaction with seasonal malaria chemoprevention services: A cross-sectional study in northern Nigeria.

Superspreaders have lower gut microbial alpha-diversity and distinct gut microbial composition in a natural rodent population (2025)
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The microbiome is well known to drive variation in host states (e.g. behaviour, immunity) that would be expected to modulate the spread of infectious disease—but the role of microbiotal interactions in promoting superspreading is poorly understood. S... Read More about Superspreaders have lower gut microbial alpha-diversity and distinct gut microbial composition in a natural rodent population.

Aonchotheca annulosa and Aonchotheca murissylvatici, which is which? A reappraisal of the gastrointestinal Aonchotheca (Nematoda: Capillariidae) species common in wood mice and bank voles (2024)
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Behnke, J. M., & Jackson, J. A. (in press). Aonchotheca annulosa and Aonchotheca murissylvatici, which is which? A reappraisal of the gastrointestinal Aonchotheca (Nematoda: Capillariidae) species common in wood mice and bank voles. Parasitology, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182024001471

Wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) and bank voles (Myodes glareolus) are often employed as natural study models in infectious disease ecology. Yet the identities of some elements of their parasite fauna have been subject to long-standing confusion. One... Read More about Aonchotheca annulosa and Aonchotheca murissylvatici, which is which? A reappraisal of the gastrointestinal Aonchotheca (Nematoda: Capillariidae) species common in wood mice and bank voles.

Large-bodied gastric spirurids (Nematoda, Spirurida) predict structure in the downstream gastrointestinal helminth community of wild spiny mice (Acomys dimidiatus) (2024)
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The dominant helminths infecting spiny mice (Acomys dimidiatus) in the montane wadis of the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt are spirurid nematodes, notably Protospirura muricola and Mastophorus muris. Both are relatively large robust stomach worms that accu... Read More about Large-bodied gastric spirurids (Nematoda, Spirurida) predict structure in the downstream gastrointestinal helminth community of wild spiny mice (Acomys dimidiatus).

Determining management strategies to control ash dieback disease through molecular and environmental interactions (2023)
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Forest trees have been increasingly threatened by invasive pathogens,
endangering associated biodiversity, and reducing ecosystems. Such an alien pathogen,
Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, has had considerable impacts on the common ash tree
(Fraxinus exce... Read More about Determining management strategies to control ash dieback disease through molecular and environmental interactions.

Remotely sensed localised primary production anomalies predict the burden and community structure of infection in long‐term rodent datasets (2023)
Journal Article
Jackson, J. A., Bajer, A., Behnke-Borowczyk, J., Gilbert, F., Grzybek, M., Alsarraf, M., & Behnke, J. (in press). Remotely sensed localised primary production anomalies predict the burden and community structure of infection in long‐term rodent datasets. Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16898

The increasing frequency and cost of zoonotic disease emergence due to global change have led to calls for the primary surveillance of wildlife. This should be facilitated by the ready availability of remotely sensed environmental data, given the imp... Read More about Remotely sensed localised primary production anomalies predict the burden and community structure of infection in long‐term rodent datasets.

Early‐life immune expression profiles predict later‐life health and fitness in a wild rodent (2023)
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Wanelik, K. M., Begon, M., Bradley, J. E., Friberg, I. M., Taylor, C. H., Jackson, J. A., & Paterson, S. (2023). Early‐life immune expression profiles predict later‐life health and fitness in a wild rodent. Molecular Ecology, 32(13), 3471-3482. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16950

Individuals differ in the nature of the immune responses they produce, affecting dis-ease susceptibility and ultimately health and fitness. These differences have been hypothesized to have an origin in events experienced early in... Read More about Early‐life immune expression profiles predict later‐life health and fitness in a wild rodent.

Effects of an IgE receptor polymorphism acting on immunity, susceptibility to infection, and reproduction in a wild rodent (2023)
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Wanelik, K. M., Begon, M., Bradley, J. E., Friberg, I. M., Jackson, J. A., Taylor, C. H., & Paterson, S. (2023). Effects of an IgE receptor polymorphism acting on immunity, susceptibility to infection, and reproduction in a wild rodent. eLife, 12, https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.77666

The genotype of an individual is an important predictor of their immune function, and subsequently, their ability to control or avoid infection and ultimately contribute offspring to the next generation. However, the same genotype, subjected to diffe... Read More about Effects of an IgE receptor polymorphism acting on immunity, susceptibility to infection, and reproduction in a wild rodent.

Living with chronic infection: persistent immunomodulation during avirulent haemoparasitic infection in a wild rodent (2022)
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Apicomplexans are a protozoan phylum of obligate parasites which may be highly virulent during acute infections, but may also persist as chronic infections which appear to have little fitness cost. Babesia microti is an apicomplexan haemoparasite tha... Read More about Living with chronic infection: persistent immunomodulation during avirulent haemoparasitic infection in a wild rodent.

Carolinensis minutus (Dujardin, 1845) Travassos 1937 (Nematoda, Heligmonellidae) in Microtus agrestis in the United Kingdom (2022)
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Jackson, J., & Friberg, I. (2022). Carolinensis minutus (Dujardin, 1845) Travassos 1937 (Nematoda, Heligmonellidae) in Microtus agrestis in the United Kingdom. Check List, 18(4), 845-848. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.4.845

The heligmonellid nematode Carolinensis minutus (Dujardin, 1845) Travassos, 1937 is recorded for the first time in Microtus agrestis (Linnaeus, 1761) in the United Kingdom. Small heligmosomoid specimens were recovered from a M. agrestis vole inhabiti... Read More about Carolinensis minutus (Dujardin, 1845) Travassos 1937 (Nematoda, Heligmonellidae) in Microtus agrestis in the United Kingdom.

Some observations on meaningful and objective inference in radioecological field studies (2022)
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Jackson, J., Antwis, R., Beresford, N. A., & Wood, M. (2022). Some observations on meaningful and objective inference in radioecological field studies. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91(7), 1546-1553. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13743

Anthropogenic releases of radiation are of ongoing importance for environmental protection, but the radiation doses at which natural systems begin to show effects are controversial. More certainty is required in this area to achieve optimal regulatio... Read More about Some observations on meaningful and objective inference in radioecological field studies.

Impacts of radiation exposure on the bacterial and fungal microbiome of small mammals in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (2021)
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Environmental impacts of the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident are much debated, but the effects of radiation on host microbiomes have received little attention to date.

We present the first analysis of small mammal gut microbiome from t... Read More about Impacts of radiation exposure on the bacterial and fungal microbiome of small mammals in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Fungal microbiomes are determined by host phylogeny and exhibit widespread associations with the bacterial microbiome (2021)
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Interactions between hosts and their resident microbial communities are a fundamental component of fitness for both agents. Though recent research has highlighted the importance of interactions between animals and their bacterial communities, compara... Read More about Fungal microbiomes are determined by host phylogeny and exhibit widespread associations with the bacterial microbiome.

Long-term trends in helminth infections of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) from the vicinity of Malham Tarn in North Yorkshire, England (2020)
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Helminth infections in wood mice (n=483), trapped over a period of 26 years in the woods
surrounding Malham Tarn in N. Yorkshire, were analysed. Although ten species of helminths
were identified, the overall mean species richness was 1.01 species/m... Read More about Long-term trends in helminth infections of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) from the vicinity of Malham Tarn in North Yorkshire, England.

Transcriptome-wide analysis reveals different categories of response to a standardised immune challenge in a wild rodent (2020)
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Individuals vary in their immune response and, as a result, some are more susceptible to infectious disease than others. Little is known about the nature of this individual variation in natural populations, or which components of immune pathways are... Read More about Transcriptome-wide analysis reveals different categories of response to a standardised immune challenge in a wild rodent.