S. Knutie

Priority Effects Shape Interactions Between Invasive Parasites in Darwin's Finches of the Galápagos Islands.

Invasive parasites are a major threat to naïve, island hosts. Furthermore, hosts often deal with multiple parasite taxa (hereon, co-parasitism), which can directly compete with each other or indirectly interact through the hosts' immune system (i.e., priority effects). Several introduced parasite taxa, such as the hema...