Cooper, R. O., Tjards, S., Rischling, J., Nguyen, D. T., & Cressler, C. E. (2022). Multiple generations of antibiotic exposure and isolation influence host fitness and the microbiome in a model zooplankton species. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 98(10), fiac082.
DeLong, J. P., & Cressler, C. E. (2022). Stochasticity directs adaptive evolution toward nonequilibrium evolutionary attractors. Ecology, e3873.
Pfenning‐Butterworth, A. C., Nguyen, D. T., Hite, J. L., & Cressler, C. E. (2022). Circadian rhythms mediate infection risk in Daphnia dentifera. Ecology and Evolution, 12(9), e9264.
Walsman, J. & Cressler, C. E. (2022) Predation shifts coevolution toward higher host contact rate and parasite virulence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289(1978), 20212800
Walsman, J., Janecka, M., Clark, D., Kramp, R., Rovenolt, F., Patrick, R., Mohammed, R., Konczal, M., Cressler, C. E., & Stephenson, J. (2022) Shoaling guppies evade predation but have deadlier parasites. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-10.
Pfenning-Butterworth, A., Cooper, R. O., & Cressler, C. E. (2022). Daily feeding rhythm linked to microbiome composition in two zooplankton species. PloS ONE, 17(2), e0263538.
Pfenning-Butterworth, A. C., Amato, K., & Cressler, C. E. (2021). Circadian rhythm in feeding behavior of Daphnia dentifera. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 36(6), 589-594
Farrell, MJ, A. Park, C. E. Cressler, T. Dallas, S. Huang, N. Mideo, I. Morales-Castillo, J. Davies, and P. Stephens. 2021. The ghost of hosts past: impacts of host extinction on parasite specificity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 2020351.
Pfenning-Butterworth, A. C., J. Davies and C. E. Cressler. 2021. Identifying co-phylogenetic hotspots for zoonotic disease. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 2020363.
Cooper, R. O., J. M. Vavra and C. E. Cressler. 2021. Targeted manipulation of abundant and rare taxa in the Daphnia magna microbiota with antibiotics impacts host fitness differentially. mSystems 6, e00916-20. DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00916-20
Hite, J. L., A. C. Pfenning-Butterworth and C. E. Cressler. 2020. A high-throughput method to quantify feeding rates in aquatic organisms: a case study with Daphnia. Ecology and Evolution, 10, 6239-6245. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6352.
Hite, J. L., A. C. Pfenning-Butterworth and C. E. Cressler. 2020. Starving the enemy? Feeding behavior shapes the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 35, 68-80. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.08.004
Luhring, T. M., J. Vavra, C. E. Cressler, and J. P. DeLong. 2019. Phenotypically plastic responses to predation risk are temperature dependent. Oecologia, 191, 709-719. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-019-04523-9
Hite, J. L. and C. E. Cressler. 2019. Parasite-mediated anorexia and nutrition modulate virulence evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59, 1264-1274. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icz100
van Leeuwen, A., S. A. Budischak, A. L. Graham, and C. E. Cressler 2019. Parasite resource manipulation drives bimodal variation in infection duration. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0456
Nebraska Today coverage: "Numbers game: revelation may explain mystery of long-term parasites"
Budischak, S. A. and C. E. Cressler. 2018. Fueling defense: effects of resources on the ecology and evolution of tolerance to parasite infection. Frontiers in Immunology, 9, 2453. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02453.
Luhring, T. M., J. Vavra, C. E. Cressler, and J. P. DeLong. 2018. Predators modify the thermal dependence of life-history trade-offs. Ecology and Evolution, 8, 8818-8830. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4381
Hite, J. L. and C. E. Cressler. 2018. Resource-driven changes to host population stability alter the evolution of virulence and transmission. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B., 373, 20170087. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0087
Budischak, S. A., C. B. Hansen, Q. Caudron, R. Garnier, T. R. Kartzinel, I. Pelczer, C. E. Cressler, A. van Leeuwen, and A. L. Graham. 2017. Feeding immunity: physiological and behavioral responses to infection and resource limitation. Frontiers in Immunology, 8, 1914. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01914
Cressler, C. E., S. P. A. M. Bengtson, and W. A. Nelson. 2017. Unexpected non-genetic individual heterogeneity and trait covariance in Daphnia and its consequences for ecological and evolutionary dynamics. American Naturalist, 190, E13-E27. DOI: 10.1086/691779
Walker, J. G., A. Hurford, J. Cable, A. R. Ellison, S. J. Price, and C. E. Cressler, 2017. Host allometry influences the evolution of parasite host-generalism: theory and meta-analysis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 372, 20160089. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0089
Cressler, C. E., D. V. McLeod, C. Rozins, J. van den Hoogen, and T. Day. 2016. The adaptive evolution of virulence: a review of theoretical predictions and empirical tests. Parasitology, 143, 915-930. pdf
Cressler, C. E., A. L. Graham, and T. Day. 2015. Host evolution under manifold costs of defense. Proceedings of the Royal Society B., 282, 20150065. pdf
Cressler, C. E., M. A. Butler, and A. A. King. 2015. Detecting adaptive evolution in phylogenetic comparative analysis using the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model. Systematic Biology 64, 953-968. link
Cressler, C. E., W. A. Nelson, T. Day and E. McCauley. 2014. Starvation reveals the cause of castration and gigantism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B., 281, 20141087 pdf
Science News coverage: "Castrated water fleas grow to gigantic proportions"
University of Calgary press release: "Exploring the role of energy allocation in host-pathogen dynamics"
Cressler, C. E., W. A. Nelson, T. Day, and E. McCauley. 2014. Disentangling the interaction among host resources, the immune system, and pathogens. Ecology Letters, 17, 284-293. pdf
Peacor, S. D. and C. E. Cressler. 2012. The implications of adaptive prey behavior for ecological communities: a review of current theory. In: Evolution and Ecology of Trait-Mediated Indirect Interactions: Linking Evolution, Community, and Ecosystem (eds. T. Ohgushi, O. Schmitz, and R. D. Holt). Cambridge University Press. pdf
Cressler, C. E., A. A. King, and E. E. Werner. 2010. Interactions between behavioral and life-history trade-offs in the evolution of integrated predator-defense plasticity. American Naturalist, 176, 276-288. pdf
DeLong, J. P., & Cressler, C. E. (2022). Stochasticity directs adaptive evolution toward nonequilibrium evolutionary attractors. Ecology, e3873.
Pfenning‐Butterworth, A. C., Nguyen, D. T., Hite, J. L., & Cressler, C. E. (2022). Circadian rhythms mediate infection risk in Daphnia dentifera. Ecology and Evolution, 12(9), e9264.
Walsman, J. & Cressler, C. E. (2022) Predation shifts coevolution toward higher host contact rate and parasite virulence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289(1978), 20212800
Walsman, J., Janecka, M., Clark, D., Kramp, R., Rovenolt, F., Patrick, R., Mohammed, R., Konczal, M., Cressler, C. E., & Stephenson, J. (2022) Shoaling guppies evade predation but have deadlier parasites. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-10.
Pfenning-Butterworth, A., Cooper, R. O., & Cressler, C. E. (2022). Daily feeding rhythm linked to microbiome composition in two zooplankton species. PloS ONE, 17(2), e0263538.
Pfenning-Butterworth, A. C., Amato, K., & Cressler, C. E. (2021). Circadian rhythm in feeding behavior of Daphnia dentifera. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 36(6), 589-594
Farrell, MJ, A. Park, C. E. Cressler, T. Dallas, S. Huang, N. Mideo, I. Morales-Castillo, J. Davies, and P. Stephens. 2021. The ghost of hosts past: impacts of host extinction on parasite specificity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 2020351.
Pfenning-Butterworth, A. C., J. Davies and C. E. Cressler. 2021. Identifying co-phylogenetic hotspots for zoonotic disease. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 2020363.
Cooper, R. O., J. M. Vavra and C. E. Cressler. 2021. Targeted manipulation of abundant and rare taxa in the Daphnia magna microbiota with antibiotics impacts host fitness differentially. mSystems 6, e00916-20. DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00916-20
Hite, J. L., A. C. Pfenning-Butterworth and C. E. Cressler. 2020. A high-throughput method to quantify feeding rates in aquatic organisms: a case study with Daphnia. Ecology and Evolution, 10, 6239-6245. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6352.
Hite, J. L., A. C. Pfenning-Butterworth and C. E. Cressler. 2020. Starving the enemy? Feeding behavior shapes the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 35, 68-80. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.08.004
Luhring, T. M., J. Vavra, C. E. Cressler, and J. P. DeLong. 2019. Phenotypically plastic responses to predation risk are temperature dependent. Oecologia, 191, 709-719. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-019-04523-9
Hite, J. L. and C. E. Cressler. 2019. Parasite-mediated anorexia and nutrition modulate virulence evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59, 1264-1274. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icz100
van Leeuwen, A., S. A. Budischak, A. L. Graham, and C. E. Cressler 2019. Parasite resource manipulation drives bimodal variation in infection duration. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0456
Nebraska Today coverage: "Numbers game: revelation may explain mystery of long-term parasites"
Budischak, S. A. and C. E. Cressler. 2018. Fueling defense: effects of resources on the ecology and evolution of tolerance to parasite infection. Frontiers in Immunology, 9, 2453. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02453.
Luhring, T. M., J. Vavra, C. E. Cressler, and J. P. DeLong. 2018. Predators modify the thermal dependence of life-history trade-offs. Ecology and Evolution, 8, 8818-8830. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4381
Hite, J. L. and C. E. Cressler. 2018. Resource-driven changes to host population stability alter the evolution of virulence and transmission. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B., 373, 20170087. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0087
Budischak, S. A., C. B. Hansen, Q. Caudron, R. Garnier, T. R. Kartzinel, I. Pelczer, C. E. Cressler, A. van Leeuwen, and A. L. Graham. 2017. Feeding immunity: physiological and behavioral responses to infection and resource limitation. Frontiers in Immunology, 8, 1914. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01914
Cressler, C. E., S. P. A. M. Bengtson, and W. A. Nelson. 2017. Unexpected non-genetic individual heterogeneity and trait covariance in Daphnia and its consequences for ecological and evolutionary dynamics. American Naturalist, 190, E13-E27. DOI: 10.1086/691779
Walker, J. G., A. Hurford, J. Cable, A. R. Ellison, S. J. Price, and C. E. Cressler, 2017. Host allometry influences the evolution of parasite host-generalism: theory and meta-analysis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 372, 20160089. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0089
Cressler, C. E., D. V. McLeod, C. Rozins, J. van den Hoogen, and T. Day. 2016. The adaptive evolution of virulence: a review of theoretical predictions and empirical tests. Parasitology, 143, 915-930. pdf
Cressler, C. E., A. L. Graham, and T. Day. 2015. Host evolution under manifold costs of defense. Proceedings of the Royal Society B., 282, 20150065. pdf
Cressler, C. E., M. A. Butler, and A. A. King. 2015. Detecting adaptive evolution in phylogenetic comparative analysis using the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model. Systematic Biology 64, 953-968. link
Cressler, C. E., W. A. Nelson, T. Day and E. McCauley. 2014. Starvation reveals the cause of castration and gigantism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B., 281, 20141087 pdf
Science News coverage: "Castrated water fleas grow to gigantic proportions"
University of Calgary press release: "Exploring the role of energy allocation in host-pathogen dynamics"
Cressler, C. E., W. A. Nelson, T. Day, and E. McCauley. 2014. Disentangling the interaction among host resources, the immune system, and pathogens. Ecology Letters, 17, 284-293. pdf
Peacor, S. D. and C. E. Cressler. 2012. The implications of adaptive prey behavior for ecological communities: a review of current theory. In: Evolution and Ecology of Trait-Mediated Indirect Interactions: Linking Evolution, Community, and Ecosystem (eds. T. Ohgushi, O. Schmitz, and R. D. Holt). Cambridge University Press. pdf
Cressler, C. E., A. A. King, and E. E. Werner. 2010. Interactions between behavioral and life-history trade-offs in the evolution of integrated predator-defense plasticity. American Naturalist, 176, 276-288. pdf
