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Publications 1991-2000

• Papers
• Book chapters
• Miscellaneous publications
• Book reviews
• Corrections to our publications
• newer Publications

Papers

1999

• Little, T. & Ebert, D. 1999. Associations between parasitism and host genotype in natural populations of Daphnia (Crustacea: Cladocera). Journal of Animal Ecology 68: 134-149.
• Ebert, D. 1998. Experimental evolution of parasites. Science 282: 1432-1435.
• Ebert, D. 1998. Infectivity, dose effects, and the genetic correlation between within-host growth and parasite virulence. Evolution 52: 1869-1871.

1998

• Ebert, D., Zschokke-Rohringer, C.D. & Carius, H.J. 1998. Within and between population variation for resistance of Daphnia magna to the bacterial endoparasite Pasteuria ramosa. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 265: 2127-2134.
• Ebert, D. 1998. Behavioural asymmetry in relation to body weight and hunger in the tropical social spider Anelosimus eximius (Araneae, Theridiidae). Journal of Arachnology 26: 70-80.
• Larsson, J.I.R., Ebert, D., Mangin, K.L. & Vavra, J. 1998. Ultrastructural study and description of Flabelliforma magnivora n. sp. (Microspora, Duboscqiidae), a new microsporidian parasite of Daphnia magna. Acta Protozoologica 37:41-52.
• Bengtsson, J. & Ebert, D. 1998. Distribution and impacts of microparasites on Daphnia in a rockpool metapopulation. Oecologia 115:213-221.

1997

• Ebert, D. & Mangin, K.L. 1997. The influence of host demography on the evolution of virulence of a microsporidian gut parasite. Evolution 51:1828-1837.
• Larsson, J.I.R., Ebert, D. & Vavra, J. 1997. Ultrastructural study and description of Ordospora colligata gen. et sp. nov. (Microspora, Ordosporidae fam. nov.), a new microsporidian parasite of Daphnia magna (Crustacea, Cladocera). European Journal of Protozoology 33:432-443.
• Ebert, D. & Weisser, W.W. 1997. Optimal killing for obligate killers: the evolution of life histories and virulence of semelparous parasites. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 264:985-991.
• McKee, D. & Ebert, D. 1997. Clutch size in Daphnia: even versus odd? Archive für Hydrobiologie 139: 163-169.
• Stirnadel, A.H. & Ebert, D. 1997. Prevalence, host specificity and impact on host fecundity of microparasites and epibionts in three sympatric Daphnia species. Journal of Animal Ecology 66:212-222.

1996

• Larsson, J.I.R., Ebert, D. & Vavra, J. 1996 Ultrastructural study of Glugea cladocera Pfeiffer, 1895, and transfer to the Genus Agglomerata (Microspora, Duboscqiidae). European Journal of Protozoology 32:412-422.
• Ebert, D., Rainey, P., Embley, T.M. & Scholz, D. 1996. Development, life cycle, ultrastructure and phylogenetic position of Pasteuria ramosa Metchnikoff 1888: rediscovery of an obligate endoparasite of Daphnia magna Straus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, Series B 351:1689-1701.
• McKee, D. & Ebert, D. 1996. The effect of temperature on maturation threshold body-length in Daphnia magna. Oecologia 108:627-630.
• McKee, D. & Ebert, D. 1996. The Interactive effects of temperature, food level and maternal phenotype on offspring size in Daphnia magna. Oecologia 107:189-196.
• Bonhoeffer, S. Ebert, D. & Lenski, R. E. 1996. The curse of the pharaoh: the evolution of virulence in pathogens with long living propagules. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B. 263:715-721.
• Ebert, D. & Hamilton, W.D. 1996. Sex against virulence: the coevolution of parasitic diseases. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11:79-82.
• Ebert, D. & Herre, E.A. 1996. The evolution of parasitic disease. Parasitology Today 12:96-101.
• Larsson, J.I.R., Ebert, D., Vavra, J. & Voronin, V.N. 1996. Redescription of Pleistophora intestinalis Chatton, 1907, a microsporidian parasite of Daphnia magna and Daphnia pulex, with establishment of the new genus Glugoides (Microspora, Glugeidae). European Journal of Protozoology 32: 251-261.

1995

• Ebert, D. 1995. Variation in parasite virulence is not an indicator for the evolution of benevolence. Conservation Biology 9:1652-1653.
• Lipsitch, M., Nowak, M.A., Ebert, D. & May, R.M. 1995. The population dynamics of vertically and horizontally transmitted parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B. 260:321-327.
• Mangin, K.L., Lipsitch, M. & Ebert, D. 1995. Virulence and transmission modes of two microsporidia in Daphnia magna. Parasitology 111:133-142.
• Ebert, D. & Mangin, K.L. 1995. The evolution of virulence - when familiarity breeds death. Biologist 42:154-156.
• Ebert, D. 1995. The ecological interaction between a microsporidian parasite and its host Daphnia magna. Journal of Animal Ecology 64:361-369.
• Ebert, D. 1994.Virulence and local adaptation of a horizontally transmitted parasite. Science 265:1084-1086.

1994

• Yampolsky, L.Y., Kamaltynov, R.M., Ebert, D., Filatov, D.A. & Chernykh, V. 1994. Variation in allozyme loci in endemic gammarids of Lake Baikal. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 53:309-323.
• Yampolsky, L.Y. & Ebert, D. 1994. Variation and plasticity of biomass allocation in Daphnia. Functional Ecology 8:435-440.
• Ebert, D. 1994. A maturation size threshold and phenotypic plasticity of age and size at maturity in Daphnia magna. Oikos, 69:309-317.
• Ebert, D. 1994. Fractional resource allocation into few eggs: Daphnia as an example. Ecology, 75:568-571.
• Ebert, D. 1994. Genetic differences in the interactions of a microsporidian parasite and four clones of its cyclically parthenogenetic host. Parasitology, 108:11-16.

1993

• Ebert, D., Yampolsky, L.Y. & Stearns, S.C. 1993. Genetics of life history traits in Daphnia magna: I. Heritabilities at two food levels. Heredity, 70:335-343.
• Ebert, D., Yampolsky, L.Y. & van Noordwijk, A.J. 1993. Genetics of life history traits in Daphnia magna: II. Phenotypic plasticity. Heredity, 70:344-352.
• Ebert, D. 1993. The trade-off between offspring size and number in Daphnia magna: The influence of genetic, environmental and maternal effects. Monograph in Archiv für Hydrobiologie S90, 4:453-473.

1992

• Ebert, D. & Yampolsky, L.Y. 1992. Family planning in Daphnia: When is clutch size determined? Russian Journal of Aquatic Ecology, 1:143-147.
• Ebert, D. 1992. A food-independent maturation threshold and size at maturity in Daphnia magna. Limnology and Oceanography 37:878-881.

1991

• Ebert, D. 1991. The effect of size at birth, maturation threshold and genetic differences on the life history of Daphnia magna. Oecologia 86:243-250.
• Ebert, D. & Jacobs, J. 1991. Differences in life history and aging in two clonal groups of Daphnia cucullata Sars (Crustacea: Cladocera). Hydrobiologia 225:245-253.

 

Book chapters

• Ebert, D. 1999. The evolution and expression of virulence. In: Evolution in health and disease (ed. S.C. Stearns) Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp.161-172.
• Read, A.F., Aaby, P., Antia, R., Ebert, D., Ewald, P.W., Gupta, S., Holmes, E.C., Sasaki, A., Shields, D., Taddei, F. & Moxon, R. 1999. What Can Evolutionary Biology Contribute To Understanding Virulence? In: Evolution in health and disease (ed. S.C. Stearns) Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 205-215.
• Gandon, S., Ebert, D., Olivieri, I. & Michalakis, Y. 1998. Differential adaptation in spatially heterogeneous environments and host-parasite coevolution. In: Genetic Variation and Local Adaptation in Natural Insect Populations: Effects of Ecology, Life History, and Behavior (eds. S. Mopper & S. Strauss) Chapman & Hall, New York. pp. 325-341.
• Ebert, D. 1997. The evolution and genetics of maturation in Daphnia. In Evolutionary Ecology of Freshwater Animals: Concepts and Case Studies (eds. B.Streit, T. Staedler, C. Lively) Birkhäuser Verlag. pp. 151-178.
• Ebert, D. Payne, R. & Weisser, W.W. 1997. The epidemiology of infectious diseases in zooplankton. In: Vertical Food Web Interactions: Evolutionary Patterns and Driving Forces. (eds. K. Dettner, G. Bauer & W. Völkl) Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, (Ecological Studies, Vol. 130) pp. 91-111.
• Jones, J.S., Ebert, D. & Stearns, S.C. 1991. Life-history and mechanical constraints on the reproduction in genes, cells and waterfleas. In Genes in Ecology (eds. S.Berry, T.J. Crawford & G.M. Hewitt) Blackwell, Oxford, pp.393-404.

Miscellaneous publications

• Ebert, D. 1999. contributions to the 'Dictionary of Ecology' and the 'Dictionary of Environmental Managment', Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK.
• Ebert, D. 1998. contributions to 'The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management' by P. Calow (Editor), Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK.
• Gandon, S., Michalakis, Y., & Ebert, D. 1996. Temporal variability and local adaptation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11:431.
• Ebert, D. 1995. The co-evolution of a microparasites and a facultatively sexual host. Bulletin of the Scandinavian Society for Parasitology 5:4.
• Ebert, D. & Lorenzi, R. 1994. Parasites and polymorphism. Nature (London) 369:705-706.

Book reviews

• Takahata, N. & Clark, A.G. (eds.). Mechanisms of molecular evolution. The Biologist (1995) 43: 191-192 (reviewed by D. Ebert).
• Jeffries, P.H. & Young, T. Interfungal parasitic relationships. The Biologist (1995) 42:183 (reviewed by D. Ebert).
• Cox, F.E.G. Modern Parasitology. Biologist, The Biologist (1994) 41:182 (reviewed by D. Ebert).