Metz, D. C. G., Palmer, E. M., & Hechinger, R. F. (2025). Quantifying senescence, death rates, and lifespans of trematode parthenitae. Journal of Helminthology, 99. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x25000331

Metz, D. C. G., & Hechinger, R. F. (2024). The physical soldier caste of an invasive, human-infecting flatworm is morphologically extreme and obligately sterile. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(31), e2400953121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400953121

Novoa, A., & Hechinger, R. F. (2024). Evidence for the importance of trophically transmitted parasites and predation at the lower latitudes of species ranges. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2037), 20242039. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2039

Weinersmith, K. L., Nadler, L. E., Bengston, E., Turner, A. V., Birda, A., Cobian, K., Dusto, J. A., Helland-Riise, S. H., Terhall, J. M., Øverli, Ø., & Hechinger, R. F. (2023). Experimental Infections with Euhaplorchis californiensis and a Small Cyathocotylid Increase Conspicuous Behaviors in California Killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis). Journal of Parasitology, 109(4). https://doi.org/10.1645/23-35

Hechinger, R. F., & Metz, D. C. G. (2023). Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites. Current Biology, 33(23), R1238–R1240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.029

Hechinger, R. F. (2023). More on formally naming trematode parthenitae and cercariae. Trends in Parasitology, 39(11), 891–892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2023.08.003

Hechinger, R. F. (2023). Let’s restart formally naming ‘larval’ trematodes. Trends in Parasitology, 39(8), 638–649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2023.05.011

Metz, D. C. G., Turner, A. V., Nelson, A. P., & Hechinger, R. F. (2022). Potential for Emergence of Foodborne Trematodiases Transmitted by an Introduced Snail ( Melanoides tuberculata ) in California and Elsewhere in the United States. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, jiac413. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiac413

Metz, D. C. G., & Hechinger, R. F. (2021). Lynnia grapsolytica n. gen, n. sp. (Ciliophora: Apostomatida: Colliniidae), a Deadly Blood Parasite of Crabs with a Novel Pseudocytopharynx. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12847

Daversa, D. R., Hechinger, R. F., Madin, E., Fenton, A., Dell, A. I., Ritchie, E. G., Rohr, J., Rudolf, V. H. W., & Lafferty, K. D. (2021). Broadening the ecology of fear: non-lethal effects arise from diverse responses to predation and parasitism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 288(1945). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2966

Nadler, L. E., Bengston, E., Eliason, E. J., Hassibi, C., Helland-Riise, S. H., Johansen, I. B., Kwan, G. T., Tresguerres, M., Turner, A. V., Weinersmith, K. L., Overli, O., & Hechinger, R. F. (2020). A brain-infecting parasite impacts host metabolism both during exposure and after infection is established. Functional Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13695

Resetarits, E. J., Torchin, M. E., & Hechinger, R. F. (2020). Social trematode parasites increase standing army size in areas of greater invasion threat. Biology Letters, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0765

Helland-Riise, S. H., Nadler, L. E., Vindas, M. A., Bengston, E., Turner, A. V., Johansen, I. B., Weinersmith, K. L., Hechinger, R. F., & Overli, O. (2020). Regional distribution of a brain-encysting parasite provides insight on parasite-induced host behavioral manipulation. Journal of Parasitology, 106(1), 188–197. https://doi.org/10.1645/19-86

Hechinger, R. F., Sheehan, K. L., & Turner, A. V. (2019). Metabolic theory of ecology successfully predicts distinct scaling of ectoparasite load on hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 286(1917). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1777

Hechinger, R. F. (2019). Guide to the trematodes (Platyhelminthes) that infect the California horn snail (Cerithideopsis californica: Potamididae: Gastropoda) as first intermediate host. Zootaxa, 4711(3), 459–494. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4711.3.3

Fong, C. R., Kuris, A. M., & Hechinger, R. F. (2019). Hermaphrodites and parasitism: size-specific female reproduction drives infection by an ephemeral parasitic castrator. Scientific Reports, 9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55167-x

Gonzalez-Solis, D., Soler-Jimenez, L. C., Aguirre-Macedo, M. L., McLaughlin, J. P., Shaw, J. C., James, A. K., Hechinger, R. E., Kuris, A. M., Lafferty, K. D., & Vidal-Martinez, V. M. (2019). Parasitic nematodes of marine fishes from Palmyra Atoll, East Indo-Pacific, including a new species of Spinitectus (Nematoda, Cystidicolidae). Zookeys, 892, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.892.38447

Soler-Jimenez, L. C., Morales-Serna, F. N., Aguirre-Macedo, M. L., McLaughlin, J. P., Jaramillo, A. G., Shaw, J. C., James, A. K., Hechinger, R. F., Kuris, A. M., Lafferty, K. D., & Vidal-Martinez, V. M. (2019). Parasitic copepods (Crustacea, Hexanauplia) on fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Central Pacific. Zookeys, 833, 85–106. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.833.30835

Fong, C. R., Kuris, A. M., & Hechinger, R. F. (2019). Parasite and host biomass and reproductive output in barnacle populations in the rocky intertidal zone. Parasitology, 146(3), 407–412. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182018001634

Rosencranz, J. A., Thorne, K. M., Buffington, K. J., Takekawa, J. Y., Hechinger, R. F., Stewart, T. E., Ambrose, R. F., MacDonald, G. M., Holmgren, M. A., Crooks, J. A., Patton, R. T., & Lafferty, K. D. (2018). Sea-level rise, habitat loss, and potential extirpation of a salt marsh specialist bird in urbanized landscapes. Ecology and Evolution, 8(16), 8115–8125. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4196

Gerard, C., Herve, M., & Hechinger, R. F. (2018). Long-term population fluctuations of the exotic New Zealand mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum and its introduced aporocotylid trematode in northwestern France. Hydrobiologia, 817(1), 253–266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3406-x

Weinersmith, K. L., Brown, C. E., Clingen, K. B., Jacobsen, M. C., Topper, L. B., & Hechinger, R. F. (2018). Euhaplorchis californiensis Cercariae Exhibit Positive Phototaxis and Negative Geotaxis. Journal of Parasitology, 104(3), 329–333. https://doi.org/10.1645/17-80

Vidal-Martinez, V. M., Soler-Jimenez, L. C., Aguirre-Macedo, M. L., McLaughlin, J., Jaramillo, A. G., Shaw, J. C., James, A., Hechinger, R. F., Kuris, A. M., & Lafferty, K. D. (2017). Monogenea of fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll in the Central Pacific. Zookeys, 713, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.713.14732

Buck, J. C., Hechinger, R. F., Wood, A. C., Stewart, T. E., Kuris, A. M., & Lafferty, K. D. (2017). Host density increases parasite recruitment but decreases host risk in a snail-trematode system. Ecology, 98(8), 2029–2038. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1905

Sheehan, K. L., Spicer, G. S., Oconnor, B. M., & Hechinger, R. F. (2017). No one saw this coming: Endoparasitic mites behind the eyes of a double-crested cormorant. Journal of Parasitology, 103(3), 295–297. https://doi.org/10.1645/16-182

Gerard, C., Miura, O., Lorda, J., Cribb, T. H., Nolan, M. J., & Hechinger, R. F. (2017). A native-range source for a persistent trematode parasite of the exotic New Zealand mudsnail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) in France. Hydrobiologia, 785(1), 115–126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-016-2910-8

Garcia-Vedrenne, A. E., Quintana, A. C. E., DeRogatis, A. M., Dover, C. M., Lopez, M., Kuris, A. M., & Hechinger, R. F. (2017). Trematodes with a reproductive division of labour: heterophyids also have a soldier caste and early infections reveal how colonies become structured. International Journal for Parasitology, 47(1), 41–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.10.003

Dolby, G. A., Hechinger, R., Ellingson, R. A., Findley, L. T., Lorda, J., & Jacobs, D. K. (2016). Sea-level driven glacial-age refugia and post-glacial mixing on subtropical coasts, a palaeohabitat and genetic study. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 283(1843). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1571

Mordecai, E. A., Jaramillo, A. G., Ashford, J. E., Hechinger, R. F., & Lafferty, K. D. (2016). The role of competition - colonization tradeoffs and spatial heterogeneity in promoting trematode coexistence. Ecology, 97(6), 1484–1496. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0753.1

Lorda, J., Hechinger, R. F., Cooper, S. D., Kuris, A. M., & Lafferty, K. D. (2016). Intraguild predation by shore crabs affects mortality, behavior, growth, and densities of California horn snails. Ecosphere, 7(5). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1262

Garcia-Vedrenne, A. E., Quintana, A. C. E., DeRogatis, A. M., Martyn, K., Kuris, A. M., & Hechinger, R. F. (2016). Social organization in parasitic flatworms: Four additional echinostomoid trematodes have a soldier caste and one does not. Journal of Parasitology, 102(1), 11–20. https://doi.org/10.1645/15-853

Torchin, M. E., Miura, O., & Hechinger, R. F. (2015). Parasite species richness and intensity of interspecific interactions increase with latitude in two wide-ranging hosts. Ecology, 96(11), 3033–3042. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0518.1

Hechinger, R. F. (2015). Parasites help find universal ecological rules. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(6), 1656–1657. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1423785112

Weinersmith, K. L., Warinner, C. B., Tan, V., Harris, D. J., Mora, A. B., Kuris, A. M., Lafferty, K. D., & Hechinger, R. F. (2014). A lack of crowding? Body size does not decrease with density for two behavior-manipulating parasites. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 54(2), 184–192. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu081

Hopper, J. V., Kuris, A. M., Lorda, J., Simmonds, S. E., White, C., & Hechinger, R. F. (2014). Reduced parasite diversity and abundance in a marine whelk in its expanded geographical range. Journal of Biogeography, n/a-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12329

Hechinger, R. F., & Miura, O. (2014). Two “new” renicolid trematodes (Trematoda: Digenea: Renicolidae) from the California horn snail, Cerithidea californica (Haldeman, 1840) (Gastropoda: Potamididae). Zootaxa, 3784(5), 559–574. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3784.5.5

Thieltges, D. W., Amundsen, P. A., Hechinger, R. F., Johnson, P. T. J., Lafferty, K. D., Mouritsen, K. N., Preston, D. L., Reise, K., Zander, C. D., & Poulin, R. (2013). Parasites as prey in aquatic food webs: implications for predator infection and parasite transmission. Oikos, 122(10), 1473–1482. https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1600-0706.2013.00243.X

Hechinger, R. F. (2013). A metabolic and body-size scaling framework for parasite within-host abundance, biomass, and energy flux. American Naturalist, 182(2), 234–248. https://doi.org/10.1086/670820

Dunne, J. A., Lafferty, K. D., Dobson, A. P., Hechinger, R. F., Kuris, A. M., Martinez, N. D., McLaughlin, J. P., Mouritsen, K. N., Poulin, R., Reise, K., Stouffer, D. B., Thieltges, D. W., Williams, R. J., & Zander, C. D. (2013). Parasites affect food web structure primarily through increased diversity and complexity. Plos Biology, 11(6). https://doi.org/10.1371/Journal.Pbio.1001579

Alda, P., Bonel, N., Hechinger, R. F., & Martorelli, S. R. (2013). Maritrema orensense and Maritrema bonaerense (Digenea: Microphallidae): Descriptions, life cycles, and comparative morphometric analyses. Journal of Parasitology, 99(2), 218–228. https://doi.org/10.1645/Ge-3238.1

Vidal-Martinez, V. M., Aguirre-Macedo, M. L., McLaughlin, J. P., Hechinger, R. F., Jaramillo, A. G., Shaw, J. C., James, A. K., Kuris, A. M., & Lafferty, K. D. (2012). Digenean metacercariae of fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Eastern Indo-Pacific. Journal of Helminthology, 86(4), 493–509. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149x11000526

Hechinger, R. F. (2012). Faunal survey and identification key for the trematodes (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) infecting Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) as first intermediate host. Zootaxa, 3418, 1–27.

Miura, O., Torchin, M. E., Bermingham, E., Jacobs, D. K., & Hechinger, R. F. (2012). Flying shells: historical dispersal of marine snails across Central America. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 279(1731), 1061–1067. https://doi.org/10.1098/Rspb.2011.1599

Hechinger, R. F., Lafferty, K. D., & Kuris, A. M. (2012). Parasites. In R. M. Sibly, J. H. Brown, & A. Kodric-Brown (Eds.), Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach (pp. 234–247). Wiley.

Hechinger, R. F., Lafferty, K. D., Dobson, A. P., Brown, J. H., & Kuris, A. M. (2011). A common scaling rule for abundance, energetics, and production of parasitic and free-living species. Science, 333(6041), 445–448. https://doi.org/10.1126/Science.1204337

Hechinger, R. F., Wood, A. C., & Kuris, A. M. (2011). Social organization in a flatworm: trematode parasites form soldier and reproductive castes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 278(1706), 656–665. https://doi.org/10.1098/Rspb.2010.1753

Hechinger, R. F., Lafferty, K. D., McLaughlin, J. P., Fredensborg, B. L., Huspeni, T. C., Lorda, J., Sandhu, P. K., Shaw, J. C., Torchin, M. E., Whitney, K. L., & Kuris, A. M. (2011). Food webs including parasites, biomass, body sizes, and life stages for three California/Baja California estuaries. Ecology, 92(3), 791–791. https://doi.org/10.1890/10-1383.1

Shaw, J. C., Hechinger, R. F., Lafferty, K. D., & Kuris, A. M. (2010). Ecology of the brain trematode Euhaplorchis californiensis and Its Host, the California killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis). Journal of Parasitology, 96(3), 482–490. https://doi.org/10.1645/Ge-2188.1

Hechinger, R. F. (2010). Mortality affects adaptive allocation to growth and reproduction: field evidence from a guild of body snatchers. Bmc Evolutionary Biology, 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-136

Hechinger, R. F., Lafferty, K. D., Mancini, F. T., Warner, R. R., & Kuris, A. M. (2009). How large is the hand in the puppet? Ecological and evolutionary factors affecting body mass of 15 trematode parasitic castrators in their snail host. Evolutionary Ecology, 23(5), 651–667. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10682-008-9262-4