Emma Baird
4 Papers
Emma Baird is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Gene. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications.
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Phylogeny, morphology, virulence, ecology, and host range of Ordospora pajunii (Ordosporidae), a microsporidian symbiont of Daphnia spp
Marcin Krzysztof Dziuba,Kristina M. McIntire,Kensuke Seto,Elizabeth S. Davenport,Mary Alta Rogalski,Camden D. Gowler,Emma Baird,Riley N. Jaye,Fiona Corcoran,Alicia Withrow,Steven R. Ahrendt,Asaf Salamov,Matt Nolan,Kerrie Barry,Igor V. Grigoriev,Timothy Y. James,Meghan A. Duffy +16 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a newly discovered microsporidian symbiont of Daphnia was found to shift from parasitism towards mutualism, but little was known about this endosymbiont.
Symbiont virulence is a poor predictor of impacts on host population dynamics
Marcin Krzysztof Dziuba,Kristina M. McIntire,Elizabeth S. Davenport,Fiona Corcoran,Taleah Nelson,Paige McCreadie,Riley T. Manuel,Emma Baird,Natalia Ferreira Dos Santos,Mia Robbins,Emma Dismondy,K. Monell,Cristian Huerta,Lindsey C. Selter,Katya Deckelbaum,Michael H. Cortez,Meghan A. Duffy +16 more
TL;DR: Experiments on Daphnia dentifera exposed to two symbionts varying in virulence reveal that individual-level effects do not translate to population-level patterns, highlighting the need to consider multiple scales when assessing symbiont impacts on host populations.
Microsporidian coinfection reduces fitness of a fungal pathogen due to rapid host mortality
Marcin Krzysztof Dziuba,Kristina M. McIntire,Elizabeth S. Davenport,Emma Baird,Cristian Huerta,Riley N. Jaye,Fiona Corcoran,Paige McCreadie,Taleah Nelson,Meghan A. Duffy +9 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that the interaction between co-occurring symbionts – and the net impact of a symbiont on a host – might be qualitatively different at different scales, and that the outcome of (co-)infection can be negative or positive depending on the focal organization level.
Transgenerational virulence: Maternal pathogen exposure reduces offspring fitness
Kristina M. McIntire,Marcin Krzysztof Dziuba,Elizabeth B. Haywood,Miles L. Robertson,Megan Vaandrager,Emma Baird,Fiona Corcoran,Michael H. Cortez,Meghan A. Duffy +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors describe transgenerational virulence, where parental exposure to a pathogen reduces offspring fitness and the effects carried to the granddaughters, which were smaller if the grandmother had pathogen exposure.