托马斯Raffel

托马斯Raffel
副教授，博士.D.
354 DH
(248) 370-3551
Lab location: 355-357 DH
Lab phone: (248) 370-3547
raffel@yaoshan8.net

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课程: 

生物4380/生物5900 Ecological Problem Solving
BIO 4381 Ecological Problem Solving Lab
BIO 4320 Medical 寄生虫学
BIO 4321 Medical 寄生虫学 Lab
BIO 5320 Medical 寄生虫学/Mycology

研究: Ecology and Evolution of Parasite-Host Interactions

Parasites have important and underappreciated effects on the ecology and evolution of their hosts, as well as on other members of their ecological communities. I seek to understand how parasites influence the ecology and evolution of their hosts, and how ecological and anthropogenic factors affect parasite-host dynamics. Much of my lab's current research is on the ecology of parasitism in amphibians, with potential implications for the rapid decline of amphibian populations worldwide. Ongoing projects include:

• Thermal Biology of Parasitism-Temperature variability might have important effects on parasitism in ectothermic hosts, but the effects of host thermal acclimation on parasites remain poorly understood.
• Host Life History Evolution-Parasites can have surprising effects on host evolution, including changes in reproductive strategies.
• 水生生态毒理学-Agricultural and other pollutants can have dramatic consequences for local pond communities, including altered dynamics of snail-borne parasites of frogs and people.
• Acquired Resistance to Infection-The ability of the vertebrate acquired immune system to develop improved resistance to parasites following repeated exposures has important effects on parasite dynamics.

Other interests include the relative importance of host resistance vs. 对寄生虫的耐受性, public perceptions of evolution and climate change, and the application of statistical models in the biological sciences.

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托马斯Raffel list of publications

Sckrabulis *, J.S., A.R. 弗洛里和T.R. Raffel. (2020). Direct onshore wind predicts daily swimmer's itch (avian schistosome) incidence at a Michigan beach. 寄生虫学 147(4) 431-440. DOI: 10.1017/S0031182020000074.

奥特曼* K.A. 和T.R. Raffel. (2019). Thermal acclimation has little effect on tadpole resistance to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 133: 207-216. DOI: 10.3354 / dao03347.

Rumschlag,年代.L., N.T. Halstead J.T. Hoverman T.R. Raffel H.J. 卡里克,.J. 哈德逊和J.R. 罗尔. (2019). Effects of pesticides on exposure and susceptibility to parasites can be generalized to pesticide class and type in aquatic communities. 生态学通讯 22: 962–972. DOI: 10.1111 /避署.13253.

Palmer-Young E.C., T.R. 拉斐尔和Q.S. McFrederick. (2019). pH-mediated inhibition of a bumble bee parasite by an intestinal symbiont. 寄生虫学 146(3): 380-388. DOI: 10.1017/S0031182018001555.

Palmer-Young E.C., T.R. 拉斐尔和Q.S. McFrederick. (2018). Temperature-mediated inhibition of a bumblebee parasite by an intestinal symbiont. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 1890. DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2018.2041.

Raffel T.R. (2018). How do newts fight disease? They change their habitat. 生态功能 32:1142–1144. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13111.

Halstead N.T., C.M. 胡佛,. Arakala D.J. Civitello G.A. 德·里奥. Gambhir,年代.A. 约翰逊,N. Jouanard K.A. Loerns T.A. 麦克马洪,R.A. Ndione K. 阮T.R. Raffel J.V. 尸体,G. Riveau,年代.H. 索科洛和J.R. 罗尔. (2018). Agrochemicals increase risk of human schistosomiasis by supporting higher densities of intermediate hosts. 自然通讯. 9(1): 837. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03189-w.

Molnar P.K., J.P. Sckrabulis * K.A. 奥特曼*和T.R. Raffel. (2017). Thermal performance curves and the metabolic theory of ecology - A practical guide to models and experiments for parasitologists. 寄生虫学杂志 103: 423-439. DOI:10.1111/1365-2656.12510.

史蒂芬斯*,J.P., K.A. 奥特曼* K.A. Berven,年代.D. tieg和T.R. Raffel. (2017). Bottom-up and trait-mediated effects of resource quality on amphibian parasitism. Journal of Animal Ecology 86: 305-315. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12613.

史蒂芬斯*,J.P., A.B. 偷了, J.P. Sckrabulis *,.J. 菲尔兹* K.A. Berven,年代.D. tieg和T.R. Raffel. (2017). Ontogenetic changes in sensitivity to nutrient limitation of tadpole growth. 环境科学 183: 263-273. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-016-3746-7.

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