Publications

Jadin, R.C., Mihaljevic, J.R., Orlofske, S.A. 2019. Do New World pitvipers ‘scale down’ at high elevations? Macroecological patterns of scale characters and body size. Ecology and Evolution. 9:9362-9375.

Sgouros, K., Page, L.M., Orlofske, S.A., Jadin, R. C. 2019. A revised molecular phylogeny reveals polyphyly in Schistura (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4559:349-362.

Orlofske, S.A., Flaxman, S.M., Joseph, M.B., Melbourne, B.A., Fenton, A., Johnson, P.T.J. 2018. Experimental investigation of alternative transmission functions: quantitative evidence for the importance of non-linear transmission dynamics in host-parasite systems. Journal of Animal Ecology 87:703-715.

Orlofske, S.A., Belden, L.K., Hopkins, W.A. 2017. Effects of Echinostoma trivolvis metacercariae infection during development and metamorphosis of the wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A 203: 40-48.

Hua, J., Buss, N., Kim, J., Orlofske, S.A., Hoverman, J.T. 2016. Population-specific toxicity of six insecticides to the trematode Echinoparyphium sp. Parasitology 143(5):542-550.

Orlofske, S.A., Jadin, R.C. Johnson, P.T.J. 2015. It’s a predator-eat-parasite world: how characteristics of predator, parasite and environment affect consumption. Oecologia 178:537-547.

Mihaljevic, J.R., Joseph, M.B., Orlofske, S.A., Paull, S.H. 2014. The scaling of host density with richness affects the direction, shape, and detectability of diversity-disease relationships. PLoS ONE 9(5):e97812. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097812.

Johnson, P.T.J., Koprivnikar, J., Orlofske, S.A., Melbourne, B.A., LaFonte, B.E. 2014. Making the right choice: testing the drivers of asymmetric infections within hosts and their consequences for pathology. Oikos 123:875-885.

Orlofske, S.A., Jadin, R.C., Hoverman, J.T., Johnson, P.T.J. 2014. Predation and disease: understanding the effects of predators at several trophic levels on pathogen transmission. Freshwater Biology 59:1064-1075

Preston, D.L., Jacobs, A.Z., Orlofske, S.A., Johnson, P.T.J. 2013. Complex life cycles in a pond food web: effects of life stage structure and parasites on network properties, trophic positions and the fit of a probabilistic niche model. Oecologia 174:953-965.

Joseph, M.B., Mihaljevic, J.R., Orlofske, S.A., Paull, S.H. 2013. Does life history mediate changing disease risk when communities disassemble? Ecology Letters 16:1405-1412.

Pinto, H.A., Jadin, R.C., Orlofske, S.A., Johnson, P.T.J., Melo, A.L. 2013. Biomphalaria straminea (Mollusca: Planorbidae) as an Intermediate host of Ribeiroia (Trematoda: Psilostomidae) in Brazil. Journal of Parasitology 99:914-918.

Preston, D.L., Orlofske, S.A., Lambden, J.P., Johnson, P.T.J. 2013. Biomass and productivity of parasites in pond ecosystems. Journal of Animal Ecology 82:509-517

Orlofske, S.A., Belden, L.K., Hopkins, W.A. 2013. Larval wood frog (Rana [=Lithobates] sylvatica) development and physiology following infection with the trematode parasite, Echinostoma trivolvis. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 164:529-536.

Koprivnikar, J., Marcogliese, D.J., Rohr, J.R., Orlofske, S.A., Raffel, T.R., Johnson, P.T.J. 2012. Macroparasite infections of amphibians: What can they tell us? Ecohealth 9:342–360.

Preston, D.L., Orlofske, S.A., Mclaughlin, J.P., Johnson, P.T.J. 2012. Food web including infectious agents from a California freshwater pond ecosystem. Ecology (Data Paper) 93:1760, Ecological Archives E093–153.

Orlofske, S.A., Jadin, R.C., Preston, D.L., Johnson P.T.J. 2012. Parasite transmission in complex communities: predators and alternative hosts alter pathogenic infections in amphibians. Ecology (Report) 93(6):1247–1253.

Hartson, R.D., Orlofske, S.A., Melin, V., Dillon Jr., R.T., Johnson, P.T.J. 2011. Land use and wetland spatial position jointly determine amphibian parasite communities. Ecohealth 8:485–500.

Johnson, P.T.J., Dobson, A., Lafferty, K.D., Marcogliese, D., Memmott, J., Orlofske, S.A., Poulin, R., Thieltges, D.W. 2010. When parasites become prey: ecological and epidemiological significance of eating parasites. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25:362–371.

Orlofske, S.A., Hopkins, W.A. 2009. Energetics of metamorphic climax in the Pickerel Frog (Lithobates palustris). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 154:191–196.

Orlofske, S.A., Grayson, K.L., Hopkins, W.A. 2009. The effects of fluorescent powder on oxygen consumption in salamanders using either cutaneous or bimodal respiration. Copeia 2009(3):623–627.

Orlofske, S.A., Belden, L.K., Hopkins, W.A. 2009. Moderate Echinostoma trivolvis infection has no effects on physiology and fitness related traits of larval Pickerel frogs (Rana palustris). Journal of Parasitology 95(4):787–792.