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Dana M. Hawley

Dana M. Hawley

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
4605
World Ranking
6473
National Ranking
2187

Overview

Dana M. Hawley is a researcher affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology as well as Medicine, with a significant focus on specialized subfields such as Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Genetics, Parasitology, and Ecology.

Their research engages with several main topics, including:

  • Microbial infections and disease research
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases

Dana M. Hawley has contributed to academic literature published in multiple venues, frequently publishing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Wildlife Diseases
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Ecology and Evolution

Their recent publications include:

  • Bidirectional interactions between host social behaviour and parasites arise through ecological and evolutionary processes (2020) - Parasitology
  • Infectious diseases and social distancing in nature (2021) - Science
  • Emerging infectious disease and the challenges of social distancing in human and non-human animals (2020) - Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Rapid adaptation to a novel pathogen through disease tolerance in a wild songbird (2023) - PLoS Pathogens
  • Host population dynamics in the face of an evolving pathogen (2021) - Journal of Animal Ecology

The researcher has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • James S. Adelman
  • Arietta Fleming-Davies
  • Marissa M. Langager
  • Anna A. Pérez-Umphrey
  • Kate E. Langwig

Best Publications

  • Disease ecology meets ecological immunology: understanding the links between organismal immunity and infection dynamics in natural populations

    Dana M. Hawley;Sonia M. Altizer

  • Host behaviour-parasite feedback: an essential link between animal behaviour and disease ecology.

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Elizabeth A. Archie;Meggan E. Craft;Dana M. Hawley

  • Feeder use predicts both acquisition and transmission of a contagious pathogen in a North American songbird.

    James S. Adelman;Sahnzi C. Moyers;Damien R. Farine;Dana M. Hawley

  • Compromised immune competence in free-living tree swallows exposed to mercury

    Dana M. Hawley;Kelly K. Hallinger;Daniel A. Cristol

  • Does animal behavior underlie covariation between hosts' exposure to infectious agents and susceptibility to infection? Implications for disease dynamics.

    Dana M. Hawley;Rampal S. Etienne;Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Anna E. Jolles

  • Genetic diversity predicts pathogen resistance and cell-mediated immunocompetence in house finches

    Dana M Hawley;Keila V Sydenstricker;George V Kollias;André A Dhondt

  • Dynamics of a novel pathogen in an avian host: Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in house finches.

    André A. Dhondt;Sonia Altizer;Evan G. Cooch;Andrew K. Davis

  • An introduction to ecological immunology

    Lynn B. Martin;Dana M. Hawley;Daniel R. Ardia

  • Parallel Patterns of Increased Virulence in a Recently Emerged Wildlife Pathogen

    Dana M. Hawley;Erik E. Osnas;Andrew P. Dobson;Wesley M. Hochachka

  • Molecular evidence for a founder effect in invasive house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) populations experiencing an emergent disease epidemic

    Dana M. Hawley;Daniel Hanley;André A. Dhondt;Irby J. Lovette

  • Sickness behaviour acting as an evolutionary trap? Male house finches preferentially feed near diseased conspecifics.

    Karen M. Bouwman;Dana M. Hawley

  • Incubation temperature affects multiple measures of immunocompetence in young wood ducks (Aix Sponsa).

    Sarah E. DuRant;William A. Hopkins;Dana M. Hawley;Gary R. Hepp

  • Experimental infection of domestic canaries (Serinus canaria domestica) with Mycoplasma gallisepticum: a new model system for a wildlife disease.

    Dana M. Hawley;Jessica Grodio;Salvatore Frasca;Laila Kirkpatrick

  • Incomplete host immunity favors the evolution of virulence in an emergent pathogen.

    Arietta E. Fleming-Davies;Arietta E. Fleming-Davies;Arietta E. Fleming-Davies;Paul D. Williams;André A. Dhondt;Andrew P. Dobson;Andrew P. Dobson

  • Stress responses and disease in three wintering house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) populations along a latitudinal gradient

    Karin M. Lindström;Dana M. Hawley;Andrew K. Davis;Martin Wikelski

  • Infection reduces anti‐predator behaviors in house finches

    James S. Adelman;Corinne Mayer;Corinne Mayer;Dana M. Hawley

  • Tolerance of infection: A role for animal behavior, potential immune mechanisms, and consequences for parasite transmission

    James S. Adelman;Dana M. Hawley

  • Food for Contagion: Synthesis and Future Directions for Studying Host–Parasite Responses to Resource Shifts in Anthropogenic Environments

    Sonia Altizer;Daniel J. Becker;Jonathan H. Epstein;Kristian M. Forbes

  • Experimentally increased social competition compromises humoral immune responses in house finches.

    Dana M. Hawley;Karin Lindström;Martin Wikelski

  • Costs of immune responses are related to host body size and lifespan.

    Amber J. Brace;Marc J. Lajeunesse;Daniel R. Ardia;Dana M. Hawley

  • Feeder density enhances house finch disease transmission in experimental epidemics

    Sahnzi C. Moyers;James S. Adelman;Damien R. Farine;Courtney A. Thomason

  • Additive metabolic costs of thermoregulation and pathogen infection

    Dana M. Hawley;Sarah E. DuRant;Amanda F. Wilson;James S. Adelman;James S. Adelman

Frequent Co-Authors

André A. Dhondt
André A. Dhondt Cornell University
David H. Ley
David H. Ley North Carolina State University
Wesley M. Hochachka
Wesley M. Hochachka Cornell University
William A. Hopkins
William A. Hopkins Virginia Tech
Andrew P. Dobson
Andrew P. Dobson Princeton University
Damien R. Farine
Damien R. Farine University of Zurich
Ignacio T. Moore
Ignacio T. Moore Virginia Tech
Lynn B. Martin
Lynn B. Martin University of South Florida
Daniel A. Cristol
Daniel A. Cristol William & Mary
Rami A. Dalloul
Rami A. Dalloul University of Georgia

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