The Sarah Reece Group - Edinburgh University, Scotland

Publications

The following is a list of publications by Sarah Reece.  For publications by other group members, please refer to their individual pages, which are accessible via the People link in the menu.

Pollitt L.C., Churcher T.S., Dawes E.J., Khan S.M., Sajid M., Basáñez M.G., Colegrave N. & Reece S.E. (2013) Costs of crowding for the transmission of malaria parasites. Evolutionary Applications, doi:10.1111/eva.12048 icon-pdf

Mideo, N., Reece, S.E., Smith, A. Metcalf, C.J.E. (2013) The Cinderella Syndrome: Why do malaria-infected cells burst at midnight? Trends in Parasitology, 29: 10-16.

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*Khan S.M., *#Reece S.E.,Waters A.P., Janse C.J. and *Kaczanowski S. (2012) Why are male malaria parasites in such a rush? Sex-specific evolution and host-parasite interactions. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, doi:10.1093/emph/eos00
*equal contributions; #corresponding author
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Schneider P., Bell A.S., Sim D.G., O'Donnell A.J., Blanford S., Paaijmans K.P., Read A.F. & Reece S.E. (2012) Virulence, drug sensitivity and transmission success in the rodent malaria, Plasmodium chabaudi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1792 icon-pdf
Cameron A., Reece S.E., Drew D.R., Haydon D.T. & Yates A.J. (2012) Plasticity in transmission strategies of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium chabaudi: environmental and genetic effects. Evolutionary Applications, doi: 10.1111/eva.12005 icon-pdf
Pollitt L.C., Reece S.E., Mideo N., Nussey D.H. & Colegrave N. (2012) The problem of autocorrelation in parasitology. PLoS Pathogens, 8(4): e1002590. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002590 icon-pdf
Mideo N., Acosta-Serrano A., Aebischer T., Brown M.J.F., Fenton A., Friman V-P., Restif O., Reece S.E., Webster J.P. & Brown S.P. (2012) Life in cells, hosts, and vectors: parasite evolution across scales. Infection, Genetics & Immunity 13: 344-7. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.03.016. icon-pdf
Staszewski V., *Reece S.E., O'Donnell A.J. & *Cunningham E.J.A. (2012) Drug treatment of malaria infections can reduce levels of protection transferred to offspring via maternal immunity. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B online February 22 doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.156
*equal contributions
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Mideo N. & Reece S.E. (2012) Plasticity in parasite phenotypes: evolutionary and ecological implications for disease. Future Microbiology 7(1): 17-24 icon-pdf

Reece S.E., Pollitt L.C., Colegrave N. & Gardner A. (2011) The meaning of death: evolution and ecology of apoptosis in protozoan parasites. PLoS Pathogens, 7(12): e1002320. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002320


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Mideo N., Savill N.J., Chadwick W., Schneider P., Read A.F., Day T. & Reece S.E. (2011) Causes of variation in malaria infection dynamics: insights from theory and data. American Naturalist, 178(6): E174-E188 icon-pdf
Mideo N., Nelson W.A., Reece S.E., Bell A.S, Read A.F. & Day T. (2011) Bridging Scales in the Evolution of Infectious Disease Life Histories: Application. Evolution, 65(11): 3298-3310 doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01382.x. icon-pdf
Innocent T.M., West S.A., Sanderson J.L., Hyrkkanen N. & Reece S.E. (2011) Lethal combat over limited resources: testing the importance of competitors and kin. Behavioural Ecology, 22(5): 923-931 doi: 10.1093/brheco/arq209 icon-pdf
Kaczanowski S., Sajid M. & Reece S.E. (2011) The evolution of apoptosis-like programmed cell death in unicellular protozoan parasites. Parasites & Vectors, 4(1): 44 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-4-44 icon-pdf
Pollitt L.C., MacGregor P., Matthews K., Reece S.E. (2011) Malaria and trypanosome transmission: different parasites, same rules? Trends in Parasitology, 27(5): 197-203 doi:10.1016/j.pt.2011.01.004 icon-pdf
Pollitt L.C., Mideo N.L., Drew D.R., Schneider P., Colegrave N., Khan S.M., Sajid M. & Reece S.E. (2011) Competition and the evolution of reproductive restraint in malaria parasites. American Naturalist, 177(3): 358-367  doi:10.1086/658175 icon-pdf
Ramiro R.S., Alpedrinha J., Carter L., Gardner A, Reece S.E. (2011) Sex and death: the effects of innate immune factors on the sexual reproduction of malaria parasites. PLoS Pathogens, 7:3, e1001309 doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1001309 icon-pdf

Abbot et al. with 137 authors (2011) Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature 471, E1-E4

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Culleton R.L., Inoue M., Reece S.E., Cheeseman S. & Carter R. (2011) Strain-specific immunity to the pre-erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium chabaudi. Parasite Immunology, 33(1): 73-8 icon-pdf
O'Donnell A.J., Schneider P., McWatters H.G. & Reece S.E. (2011) The fitness costs of disrupting circadian rhythms in malaria parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B, doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2457
Research highlight: microbiology (Nature)
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Pollitt L.C., Colegrave N., Khan S.M., Sajid M. & Reece S.E. (2010) Investigating the evolution of apoptosis in malaria parasites: the importance of ecology. Parasites & Vectors, 3:105 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-3-105 icon-pdf
Reece S.E., Ali E., Schneider P. & Babiker H.A. (2010) Stress, drugs and the evolution of reproductive restraint in malaria parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 277(1697): 3123-3129 doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.0564 icon-pdf
Abe J., Innocent T.M, Reece S.E. & West S.A. (2010) Virginity and the clutch size behaviour of a parasitoid wasp. Behavioural Ecology, 21(4): 730-738
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Innocent T.M, Abe J., West S.A. & Reece S.E. (2010) Competition between relatives and the evolution of dispersal. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23(7): 1374-85
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Savill N.J., Chadwick W. & Reece S.E. (2009) Quantitative analysis of mechanisms that govern red blood cell age structure and dynamics during anaemia. PLoS Computational Biology, 5(6): e1000416
Reece S.E., Ramiro R.S. & Nussey D.H.N. (2009) Plastic parasites: sophisticated strategies for survival and reproduction? Evolutionary Applications, 2(1): 11-23
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Schneider P., Chan B.H.K, Reece S.E. & Read A.F. (2008). Does the drug sensitivity of malaria parasites depend on their virulence? Malaria Journal, 7(257)
Commentary: Stein (Trends in Parasitology)
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Reece S.E. & Thompson J. (2008) Transformation of the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium chabaudi and generation of stable fluorescent lines. Malaria Journal, 7(183)
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Babiker H.A., Schneider P. & Reece S.E. (2008) Gametocytes: Insights gained during a decade of molecular monitoring. Trends in Parasitology, 24(11): 525-530
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Reece S.E., Drew D.R. & Gardner A. (2008) Sex ratio adjustment and kin discrimination in malaria parasites. Nature, 453 609-615.
Commentaries: Schall (Nature); Knowles & Sheldon (Current Biology); Schall (Trends in Parasitology)
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Drew D.R. & Reece S.E. (2007) Development of reverse transcription PCR techniques to analyse the density and sex ratio of gametocytes in genetically diverse Plasmodium chabaudi infections. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 156(2): 199-209
Reece S.E., Innocent T.M., & West S.A. (2007) Lethal combat in the parasitoid, Melittobia acasta: are size and competitive environment important? Animal Behaviour, 18(4): 709-715 icon-pdf
Innocent T.M, West S.A. & Reece S.E. (2007) Lethal combat and sex ratio evolution in a parasitoid wasp. Behavioural Ecology, 18: 709-715 PDF
Augustijn K.D, Kleemann R., Thompson J., Kooistra T., Crawford C.E., Reece S.E., Pain A., Siebum A.H.G., Janse C.J. & Waters A.P. (2007) Functional characterization of the Plasmodium homologue of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor. Infection & Immunity, 75(3): 1116-1128 PDF
Shuker D.M., Reece S.E., Lee A., Graham A., Duncan A.B. & West S.A. (2007) Information use in space and time: sex allocation behaviour in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis. Animal Behaviour, 73: 971-977 PDF
Reece S.E., Wherry R.N., Bloor J.M.G. (2005) Sex allocation and interactions between relatives in the bean beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus. Biological Processes,  70: 282-288 PDF
Shutler D., Reece S.E., Mullie A., Billingsly P.F., & Read A.F. (2005) Rodent malaria parasites Plasmodium chabaudi and P. vinckei do not increase rates of gametocytogensis in reponse to mosquito probing. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 272: 2397-2402 PDF
Shuker D.M., Pen I., Duncan A.B., Reece S.E. & West S.A. (2005) Sex ratios under asymmetrical local mate competition: theory and a test with parasitoid wasps. American Naturalist, 166(3): 301-316 PDF
Reece S.E., Duncan A.B., West S.A. & Read A.F. (2005) Host cell preference and variable transmission strategies in malaria parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 272: 511-517 PDF
Shuker D.M., Reece S.E., Whitehorn P.R. & West S.A. (2004) Sib-mating does not lead to facultative sex ratio adjustment in the parasitoid wasp, Nasonia vitripennis. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 6(3): 473-480 PDF
Shuker D.M., Reece S.E., Taylor J.A.L. & West S.A. (2004) Wasp sex ratio behaviour when females on a patch are related. Animal Behaviour, 68: 331-336 PDF
Reece S.E., Shuker D.M., Pen I., Duncan A.B., Choudhary A., Batchelor C.M. & West, S.A. (2004) Kin discrimination and sex ratios in a parasitoid wasp. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 17, 208-216 PDF
Reece S.E., Duncan A.B., West S.A. & Read A.F. (2003) Sex ratios in the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium chabaudi. Parasitology, 127: 419-425
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West S.A., Reece S.E. & Read A.F. (2003) Toxoplasma gondii, Sex and premature rejection. Trends in Parasitology, 19: 155-157 PDF
Gardner A., Reece S.E., & West S.A. (2003) Even more extreme fertility insurance and the sex ratios of protozoan blood parasites. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 223: 515-521 PDF
Reece S.E., Broderick A.C., Godley B.J. & West S.A. (2002) The effects of incubation environment, sex and pedigree on hatchling phenotype in a natural population of loggerhead sea turtles. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 4: 737-748 PDF
West S.A., Reece S.E. & Sheldon B.C. (2002) Sex ratios. Heredity, 89: 117-124 PDF
Godley B.J., Broderick A.C., Downie J.R., Glen F., Hays G.C., Houghton J., Kirkwood I. & Reece S.E. (2001) Thermal conditions in nests of loggerhead turtles: further evidence suggesting skewed sex ratios of hatchling production in the Mediterranean. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 263: 45-63 PDF
West S.A., Reece S.E. & Read A.F. (2001) Evolution of gametocyte sex ratios in malaria and related apicomplexan (protozoan) parasites. Trends in Parasitology, 17: 525-531 PDF
Reece S.E. & Read A.F. (2000). Malaria sex ratios. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 15: 259-260 PDF
Broderick A.C., Godley B.J., Reece S.E. & Downie J.R.(2000) Incubation periods and sex ratios of green turtles: highly female biased hatchling production in the eastern Mediterranean. Marine Ecological Proceedings, 202: 273-281 PDF