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Professor Mike Boots
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The population ecology and evolutionary dynamics of wildlife and human diseases: theory and model systems
The evolution of virulence: focusing on the role of spatial structure using a combination of theoretical modelling and model empirical systems.
Adaptive dynamics and the evolution of resistance: basic theory on the evolution of costly resistance to parasites and empirical determination of the costs to resistance.
Host-parasite population dynamics: the role of seasonal forcing and the evolution of population dynamics.
The ecology of wildlife disease: modelling the role of parapoxvirus in the replacement of red squirrels by greys and the role of natural enemies in the dynamics of Winter moth.
The epidemiology and evolution of tropical human diseases: focussing in particular on the epidemiology of malaria & strain coexistence in Dengue fever.
Spatial host-parasite population ecology: theory and tests of spatial theory in laboratory microcosms.
Vector ecology and control: mosquito ecology and the use of copepods for bio-control.
Sexually transmitted disease: epidemiology, evolution and their role in mating systems.
Dr Ian Sorrell
Leverhulme. "Population structure and the evolution of parasites"
Dr Ruth Hamilton
Leverhulmne - "Modelling the mechanisms driving parasite adaptation and genetic diversity"
Alex Best
NERC 2006-2009. Modelling the evolution of resistance to parasites
Alice Laughton
NERC 2005-2008. Immunity and multiple infections
Aungkana Saejeng
NERC 2005-2008. Insect viral disease
Heather Rae
NERC - 2003-2006. "Heterogeneity and parasite evolution".
email : bop03hjr@sheffield.ac.uk
Edward Jones
NERC EMS - 2003-2006. "Modelling Wintermoth and its natural enemies".
email : bop03eoj@sheffield.ac.uk
Rebecca Finlay
NERC. "Spatial Population Ecology".
Boots M, D. Childs, D. C. Reuman & M. Mealor (in Press). Local Interactions Lead to Pathogen Driven Change to Host Population Dynamics. In press at Current Biology.
Childs,D.Z. & M. Boots (in Press). Seasonal Forcing, Immunity and the Dynamics of Malaria. In press at Royal Society interface.
Bell, S.S., A. White & M. Boots (in Press). Invading with biological weapons: the role of shared disease in ecological invasions. In press at Theoretical Ecology.
Best, A. A. White & M. Boots (in Press). Resistance is Futile: Tolerance can explain why parasites don´t always castrate their hosts. In press at Evolution.
Boots, M., A Best, M.R. Miller, & A White (2009). The role of ecological feedbacks in the evolution of host defence: what does theory tell us? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B. 364, 27-36.
Sorrell, I, A. White, A. B. Pedersen, R. S. Hails & M. Boots (2009). The Evolution of Covert Infection as a Parasite Strategy. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B. 276, 2217-2226
Best, A., A. White & M. Boots (2009). The implications of co-evolutionary dynamics to host-parasite interactions. The American Naturalist 173, 779-791.
Boots, M (2008). Fight or learn to live with the consequences? Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 23, 248-250.
Best, A., A. White & M. Boots (2008). The maintenance of host variation in tolerance to pathogens and parasites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105,20786-20791.
Hamilton R, Siva-Jothy M & M. Boots(2008). Two arms are better than one: Variation in parasite growth rates selects for combined inducible and constitutive innate immune responses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.275, 937-945
Hoyle, A., R.G. Bowers, A. White & M. Boots (2008). The evolutionary implications of the shape of trade-offs in different ecological contexts. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 250, 498-511
Boots, M. and M. Mealor (2007). Local interactions select for lower infectivity. Science, 315, 1184-1186
M. Miller, A White, K. Wilson & M. Boots (2007). The population dynamical implications of male-biased parasitism in different mating systems. PLOS ONE.
Webb S.D., M.J Keeling & M. Boots (2007).Host-parasite interactions between the local and the mean-field: how and when does spatial population structure matter? Journal of Theoretical Biology. 249 140-152
Beckerman, A.P., M. Boots & K. J. Gaston (2007). Urban bird declines and the fear of cats. Journal of Animal Conservation. 10, 320-325.
Adams, B, A Sasaki and M Boots (2007). The influence of immune cross-reaction on phase structure in resonant solutions of a multi-strain seasonal SIR model. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 248, 202-211.
Miller, M.R., A. White & M. Boots (2007). Host lifespan and the evolution of resistance characteristics. Evolution. 61, 2-14.
Ryder, J.J., M Miller, A White, R. J. Knell & M Boots (2007). Disease dynamics under combined frequency- and density-dependent transmission. Oikos 116, 2017-2026.
Webb. S. D., M. J. Keeling & M Boots (2007). Spatially extended host-parasite interactions: the role of recovery and immunity. Theoretical Population Biology. 71 (2): 251-266.
Kamo M., A Sasaki and M Boots (2007). The role of trade-off shapes in the evolution of parasites in spatial host populations: an approximate analytical approach. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 244, 588-596.
Dieng, H, M. Boots, J Higashihara, T. Okada, K. Kato, T. Satho. F. Miake & Y. Eshita (2007). Effects of blood and virus-infected blood on protein expression in the midgut of the dengue vector Aedes albopictus. Medical and Veterinary Entomology. 21, 1-6.
Jones, E.O, A.W. White & M. Boots (2007) Interference and the Persistence of Vertically Transmitted Parasites. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 246, 10-17.
Adams, B., E. C. Holmes, C. Zhang, M. P. Mammen Jr, S. Nimmannitya, S. Kalayanarooj and M. Boots (2006). Cross-protective immunity can account for the alternating epidemic pattern of dengue virus serotypes circulating in Bangkok. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 103, 14234-14239.
Miller M., A White & M. Boots (2006). The evolution of parasites in response to tolerance in their hosts: The good, the bad and apparent commensalism. Evolution. 60 (5): 945-956.
White, A., Greenman, J., Benton, T.G., Sherratt, J.A. and Boots, M (2006). Evolutionary Behaviour in Ecological Systems with Trade-offs and Complex Population Dynamics. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 8, 387-398.
Mealor, M & M. Boots (2006). Resistance patterns suggest a decreasingly costly resistance mechanism in a model insect-pathogen system. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 19, 326-330.
Kamo, M and M Boots (2006). The evolution of optimal long distant infection in micro-parasites. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 8: 1333-1347.
Childs, D.Z, Cattadori I, Wannapa Suwonkerd & Somsak Prajakwong, Boots, M (2006). Long-term patterns of Malaria incidence in Northern Thailand. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 100 (7): 623-631.
Adams, B. & M. Boots (2006). Modelling the Relationship Between Antibody Dependent Enhancement and Immunological Distance with Application to Dengue. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 242 (2): 337-346.
Dieng, H. M Boots, N Tamori, J Higashihara and Y Eshita (2006). Some technical and ecological determinants of hatchibility in Aedes albopictus (Diptera culcidae), a potential candidate for transposon mediated transgenesis. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 22 (3):382-389.
Ryder J.J., K.M Webberley, M Boots & R.J. Knell (2005). Measuring the Transmission Dynamics of a Sexually Transmitted Disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 102, 15140-15143.
Hamilton, R., M Boots and S Paterson (2005). The Effect of Host Heterogeneity and Parasite Intra-genomic Interactions on Parasite Population Structure. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 272, 1647-1653.
Greenman, J.V., T.G. Benton, M. Boots and A. White (2005). The Evolution of Population Dynamics in Age-Structured Species. The American Naturalist. 166, 68-78.
Miller, M.R., A. White and M. Boots (2005). The Evolution of Host Resistance: Tolerance versus Control. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 236, 198-207.
Bowers, R.G., A, Hoyle, M. Boots & A White (2005). The geometric theory of adaptive evolution: Trade-off and invasion plots. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 233, 363-377.
Boots, M, P.J. Hudson & A. Sasaki (2004). Large shifts in pathogen virulence relate to host population structure. Science, 303, 842-844.
Boots, M & R.G. Bowers (2004). The evolution of acquired immunity. Proceedings of the Royal Society, 271, 715-723.
Boots, M (2004). Modelling insect diseases as functional predators. Physiological Entomology, 29, 237-239.
Kamo M. & Boots M (2004). The curse of the Pharaoh in space: Long lived free-living infective stages and the evolution of virulence. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 231, 435-441.
Greenman, J, M. Kamo & M. Boots (2004). External Forcing of Ecological and Epidemiological Systems: a resonance approach. Physica D, 190, 136-151.
