Avian Disease Ecology

*Asterisk denotes undergraduate co-author

** Double asterisk denotes post-baccalaureate co-author

^ graduate student mentee

 

Taff, CC. JR Shipley, DR Ardia, L Albert, M Bélisle, A. Belmaker, … AC Love, …. MN Vitousek. 2026. Divergent population trajectories despite similar response to temperature in a widespread aerial insectivore. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

 

Knutie, SA, L Arnaout*, S Alkhawaldeh*, AC Love. 2025. Net positive effects of early-life parasitism on wild animal host fitness. Trends in Parasitology. 

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Sauer, EL†, C Stacy†, W Perrine^, AC Love, J Lewis, SE DuRant. 2025. Diet driven differences in host tolerance are linked to shifts in global gene expression in a common avian host-pathogen system. Molecular Ecology. †co-first authors  

 

Perrine, W^, EL Sauer, AC Love, A Morris*, J Novotny*, SE DuRant. 2025. A high lipid diet leads to greater pathology and lower tolerance during infection. Journal of Experimental Biology.

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Love, AC, M Nahom, J Gutierrez, L Albert, SA Knutie. 2025. An early-life disruption of gut microbiota has opposing effects on parasite resistance in two host species.  Molecular Ecology. 

Knutie, SA, R Bahouth, M Bertone, C Webb*, M Mehta*, M Nahom*, R Barta; S Ghai, AC Love, S Horan, A Soldo, E Cochrane*, J Bartholomew*, E Cowan, H Bjerke*, S Balenger, M Butler, A Cornell, A Kennedy, V Rolland, E Schultz, M Stanback, C Taff, G Albery. 2024. Understanding spatiotemporal effects of food supplementation on host-parasite interactions using community-based science. Journal of Animal Ecology. 

Love, AC, V Tabb*, NH Youssef, SM Wilder, SE DuRant. 2024. Effect of dietary macronutrients and immune challenge on gut microbiota, physiology, and feeding behavior in zebra finches. Molecular Ecology. 

Bygrave, JN*†, AC Love†, M Zylberberg, A Addesso, SA Knutie. 2024. Influence of human activity on gut microbiota and immune responses of Darwin’s finches in the Galápagos Islands. Avian Conservation and Ecology. †co-first authors
 

Sauer, EL, C Connelly*, W Perrine, AC Love, SE DuRant. 2023. Male pathology regardless of behaviour drives transmission in an avian host-pathogen system. Journal of Animal Ecology.
Media coverage: UArk News

Solomon, G** †, AC Love †, GJ Vaziri, J Harvey, T Verrett, K Chernicky, S Simons, L Albert*, J Chaves, SA Knutie. 2023. Effect of urbanization and parasitism on the gut microbiota of Darwin’s finch nestlings. Molecular Ecology. †co-first authors  
Media coverage: UConn Today

Love, AC, AC Anthony*, A Nash*, A Campos-Melara*, J Kodali*, SE DuRant. 2023. Simulated infection shapes individual and social behaviors in pair-bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors. Behavioral Ecology. 

Love, AC, K Grisham*, JB. Krall*, CG Goodchild, SE DuRant. 2021. Perception of infection: disease-related social cues influence immunity in songbirds. Biology Letters.
Media coverage: The Atlantic, Science News, SciShow

Goodchild, CG, AC Love, JB Krall*, SE DuRant. 2020. Weathered Mississippi Canyon 252 crude oil ingestion alters cytokine signaling, lowers heterophil:lymphocyte ratio, and induces sickness behavior in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Environmental Pollution. 

DuRant, SE, AC Love, B Belin*, D Tamayo-Sanchez*, MS Pacheco*, MJ Dickens, RM Calisi. 2020. Captivity alters neuroendocrine regulators of stress and reproduction in the hypothalamus in response to acute stress. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 

Love, AC, MB Lovern, SE DuRant. 2017. Captivity influences immune responses, stress endocrinology, and organ size in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). General and Comparative Endocrinology. 252: 18-26.

Love, AC, S Foltz, JS Adelman, IT Moore, DM Hawley. 2016. Changes in corticosterone concentrations and behavior during Mycoplasma gallisepticum infection in house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus). General and Comparative Endocrinology.