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Dr Alice Risely's Outputs (23)

Migratory animals feel the cost of getting sick: A meta-analysis across species (2017)
Journal Article
Risely, A., Klaassen, M., & Hoye, B. J. (2018). Migratory animals feel the cost of getting sick: A meta-analysis across species. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87(1), 301-314. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12766

Migratory animals are widely assumed to play an important role in the long-distance dispersal of parasites, and are frequently implicated in the global spread of zoonotic pathogens such as avian influenzas in birds and Ebola viruses in bats. However,... Read More about Migratory animals feel the cost of getting sick: A meta-analysis across species.

Gut microbiota of a long-distance migrant demonstrates resistance against environmental microbe incursions (2017)
Journal Article
Risely, A., Waite, D., Ujvari, B., Klaassen, M., & Hoye, B. (2017). Gut microbiota of a long-distance migrant demonstrates resistance against environmental microbe incursions. Molecular Ecology, 26(20), 5842-5854. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14326

Migratory animals encounter suites of novel microbes as they move between disparate sites during their migrations, and are frequently implicated in the global spread of pathogens. Although wild animals have been shown to source a proportion of their... Read More about Gut microbiota of a long-distance migrant demonstrates resistance against environmental microbe incursions.

Climate change and tuberculosis drive non-adaptive shifts in the faecal microbiota of wild meerkats
Journal Article
Risely, A., Müller-Klein, N., Schmid, D., Wilhelm, K., Clutton-Brock, T., Manser, M., & Sommer, S. Climate change and tuberculosis drive non-adaptive shifts in the faecal microbiota of wild meerkats. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1873485/v1

Climate change and climate-driven increases in infectious disease threaten wildlife populations globally. Yet, their combined long-term effects on gut microbial communities remain unknown. Over the past two decades, wild meerkats inhabiting the Kalah... Read More about Climate change and tuberculosis drive non-adaptive shifts in the faecal microbiota of wild meerkats.