Biology

Meghan Duffy, Assistant Professor

Ph.D.; Zoology and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior; Michigan State University and W.K. Kellogg Biological Station

Phone:
Fax: 404-894-0519
Office: (CE)

Publications

Duffy, M.A. 2007. Selective predation, parasitism, and trophic cascades in a bluegill-Daphnia-parasite system. Oecologia, in press.

Hall, S.R., L. Sivars-Becker, C. Becker, M.A. Duffy, A.J. Tessier and C.E. Cáceres. 2007. Eating yourself sick: transmission of disease as a function of feeding biology of hosts. Ecology Letters 10(3):207-218.

Duffy, M.A. and L. Sivars-Becker. 2007. Rapid evolution and ecological host-parasite dynamics. Ecology Letters 10(1):44-53.               

Hall, S.R., A.J. Tessier, M.A. Duffy, M. Huebner and C.E. Cáceres. 2006. Warmer does not have to mean sicker: Temperature and predators can jointly drive timing of epidemics. Ecology 87(7):1684-1695.

Cáceres, C.E., S.R. Hall, M.A. Duffy, A.J. Tessier, C. Helmle and S. MacIntyre. 2006. Physical structure of lakes constrains epidemics in Daphnia populations. Ecology 87(6):1438-1444.

Hall, S.R., M.A. Duffy, A.J. Tessier and C.E. Cáceres. 2005. Spatial heterogeneity of daphniid parasitism in lakes. Oecologia 143(4):635-644.

Duffy, M.A., S.R. Hall, A.J. Tessier and M. Huebner. 2005. Selective predators and their parasitized prey: Are epidemics in zooplankton under top-down control? Limnology and Oceanography 50:412-420.

Hall, S.R., M.A. Duffy and C.E. Cáceres. 2005. Selective predation and productivity jointly drive complex behavior in host-parasite systems. American Naturalist 165:70-81.

Duffy, M.A., A.J. Tessier and M.A. Kosnik. 2004. Testing the ecological relevance of Daphnia species designations. Freshwater Biology 49(1):55-64.

Duffy, M.A., L.J. Perry, C.M. Kearns, L.J. Weider, and N.G. Hairston, Jr. 2000. Paleogenetic evidence for a past invasion of Onondaga Lake, New York, by exotic Daphnia curvirostris using mtDNA from dormant eggs. Limnology and Oceanography 45(6):1409-1414.