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PUBLICATIONS

In Revision. Durkin, E.S., Cassidy, S. T., Leyva, A., and Keiser, C. N. Population differences in the aggregation and collective foraging behavior of fragmented social spider colonies. Ethology.

Durkin, E. S., Cassidy, S. T., Gilbert, R., Richardson, E., Roth, A. M., Shablin, S. and Keiser, C. N. (2021). Parasites of spiders: their impacts on host behavior and ecology. Journal of Arachnology.

Durkin, E S, A M Roth and C N Keiser (2020) Parasitic personalities: Consistent individual differences in behavior in a facultatively parasitic mite. Journal of Insect Behavior

Durkin, E. S., Proctor, H. and Luong, L. T. (2019). Life History of Macrocheles muscaedomesticae (Parasitiformes: Macrochelidae): new insights on life history and evidence of facultative parasitism on Drosophila. Experimental and Applied Acarology 79: 309-321

Durkin, E. S. and Luong, L. T. (2019). Phenotypic plasticity more essential to maintaining variation in host-attachment behaviour than evolutionary trade-offs in a facultatively parasitic mite. Parasitology 146: 1289-1295.

Durkin, E. S. and Luong, L. T. (2018). Experimental evolution of infectious behaviour in a facultative ectoparasite. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31: 362-370.

Durkin, E. S., Luong, L. T. and Bird, J. (2015). Mechanisms underlying parasite infection: influence of host body mass and age on chewing louse distribution among brown-headed cowbirds. Parasitology Research 114: 4169-4174.

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