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Isabella Cattadori
Study systems include
Myxoma virus in rabbits
Helminths in grouse, rabbits and mice
Ticks in mice
Selected publications
Cattadori IM, Boag B & Hudson PJ (2008). Parasite co-infection and interaction as drivers of host heterogeneity. Int. J. Parasitol. 38: 371-380
Cattadori IM, Albert R & Boag B (2007). Variation in host susceptibility and infectiousness generated by co-infection: the myxoma-Trichostrongylus retortaeformis case in wild rabbits. Interface 4: 831-840
Cattadori IM, Boag B, Bjørnstad ON, Cornell S & Hudson PJ (2005). Peak shift and epidemiology in a seasonal host-nematode system. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 272: 1163-1169
Cattadori IM, Haydon DT & Hudson PJ (2005). Parasites and climate synchronize red grouse populations. Nature, 433: 737-741.
Ferrari N, Cattadori IM, Nespereira J, Rizzoli A & Hudson PJ (2004). The role of host sex in parasite dynamics: field experiments on the yellow-necked mouse Apodemus flavicollis. Ecol. Lett. 7: 88-94
Perkins SE, Cattadori IM, Tagliapietra V, Rizzoli AP & Hudson PJ (2003). Empirical evidence for key hosts in persistence of a tick-borne disease. Int. J. Parasitol. 33: 909-917
Research interests
I'm interested in in population ecology and the factors responsible for temporal and spatial changes in animal populations. My current work focuses on:
- Effects of host-parasite interactions on population dynamics
- Characteristics of interspecific parasite interactions
- Role of host heterogeneities and consequences for parasite dynamics
- Immuno-epidemiology of host-parasite interactions
- Evolution of myxoma virus
