59 publications

2021

• 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.(0202). doi: 10.1111/jeu.12847
• Daversa, D. R., Hechinger, R. F., Madin, E., Fenton, A., Dell, A. I., Ritchie, E. G., ... 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). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2966

2020

• Nadler, L. E., Bengston, E., Eliason, E. J., Hassibi, C., Helland-Riise, S. H., Johansen, I. B., ... Hechinger, R. F. (2020). A brain-infecting parasite impacts host metabolism both during exposure and after infection is established. Functional Ecology. doi: 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). doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0765
• Helland-Riise, S. H., Nadler, L. E., Vindas, M. A., Bengston, E., Turner, A. V., Johansen, I. B., ... 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. doi: 10.1645/19-86

2019

• 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(19121). doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55167-x
• 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). doi: 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. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.3.3
• Gonzalez-Solis, D., Soler-Jimenez, L. C., Aguirre-Macedo, M. L., McLaughlin, J. P., Shaw, J. C., James, A. K., ... 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 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.892.38447
• 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. doi: 10.1017/s0031182018001634
• Soler-Jimenez, L. C., Morales-Serna, F. N., Aguirre-Macedo, M. L., McLaughlin, J. P., Jaramillo, A. G., Shaw, J. C., ... Vidal-Martinez, V. M. (2019). Parasitic copepods (Crustacea, Hexanauplia) on fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Central Pacific. Zookeys doi: 10.3897/zookeys.833.30835

2018

• Rosencranz, J. A., Thorne, K. M., Buffington, K. J., Takekawa, J. Y., Hechinger, R. F., Stewart, T. E., ... 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. doi: 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. doi: 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. doi: 10.1645/17-80

2017

• Vidal-Martinez, V. M., Soler-Jimenez, L. C., Aguirre-Macedo, M. L., McLaughlin, J., Jaramillo, A. G., Shaw, J. C., ... Lafferty, K. D. (2017). Monogenea of fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll in the Central Pacific. Zookeys doi: 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. doi: 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. doi: 10.1645/16-182
• 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. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.10.003
• 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. doi: 10.1007/s10750-016-2910-8

2016

• 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). doi: 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. doi: 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). doi: 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. doi: 10.1645/15-853

2015

• 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. doi: 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. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1423785112

2014

• Weinersmith, K. L., Warinner, C. B., Tan, V., Harris, D. J., Mora, A. B., Kuris, A. M., ... 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. doi: 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. doi: 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. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3784.5.5

2013

• Thieltges, D. W., Amundsen, P. A., Hechinger, R. F., Johnson, P. T. J., Lafferty, K. D., Mouritsen, K. N., ... Poulin, R. (2013). Parasites as prey in aquatic food webs: implications for predator infection and parasite transmission. Oikos, 122(10), 1473-1482. doi: 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. doi: 10.1086/670820
• Dunne, J. A., Lafferty, K. D., Dobson, A. P., Hechinger, R. F., Kuris, A. M., Martinez, N. D., ... Zander, C. D. (2013). Parasites affect food web structure primarily through increased diversity and complexity. Plos Biology, 11(6). doi: 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. doi: 10.1645/Ge-3238.1

2012

• Vidal-Martinez, V. M., Aguirre-Macedo, M. L., McLaughlin, J. P., Hechinger, R. F., Jaramillo, A. G., Shaw, J. C., ... 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. doi: 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
• 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. doi: 10.1098/Rspb.2011.1599
• Hechinger, R. F., Lafferty, K. D., & Kuris, A. M. (2012). Parasites. Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach (pp. 234-247). : Wiley.

2011

• 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. doi: 10.1126/Science.1204337
• Hechinger, R. F., Lafferty, K. D., McLaughlin, J. P., Fredensborg, B. L., Huspeni, T. C., Lorda, J., ... 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. doi: 10.1890/10-1383.1
• 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. doi: 10.1098/Rspb.2010.1753

2010

• 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. doi: 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. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-136

2009

• 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. doi: 10.1007/S10682-008-9262-4

2008

• Hechinger, R. F., Lafferty, K. D., & Kuris, A. M. (2008). Diversity increases biomass production for trematode parasites in snails. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 275(1652), 2707-2714. doi: 10.1098/Rspb.2008.0875
• Rigby, M. C., Sharma, R. S. K., Hechinger, R. F., Platt, T. R., & Weaver, J. C. (2008). Two new species of Camallanus (Nematoda: camallanidae) from freshwater turtles in Queensland, Australia. Journal of Parasitology, 94(6), 1364-1370. doi: 10.1645/Ge-1504.1
• Dobson, A., Lafferty, K. D., Kuris, A. M., Hechinger, R. F., & Jetz, W. (2008). Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, 11482-11489. doi: 10.1073/Pnas.0803232105
• Hechinger, R. F., Lafferty, K. D., & Kuris, A. M. (2008). Trematodes indicate animal biodiversity in the Chilean intertidal and Lake Tanganyika. Journal of Parasitology, 94(4), 966-968. doi: 10.1645/Ge-1381.1
• Kuris, A. M., Hechinger, R. F., Shaw, J. C., Whitney, K. L., Aguirre-Macedo, L., Boch, C. A., ... Lafferty, K. D. (2008). Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries. Nature, 454(7203), 515-518. doi: 10.1038/Nature06970

2007

• Hechinger, R. F. (2007). Annotated key to the trematode species infecting Batillaria attramentaria (Prosobranchia : Batillariidae) as first intermediate host. Parasitology International, 56(4), 287-296. doi: 10.1016/J.Parint.2007.06.004
• Whitney, K. L., Hechinger, R. F., Kuris, A. M., & Lafferty, K. D. (2007). Endangered light-footed clapper rail affects parasite community structure in coastal wetlands. Ecological Applications, 17(6), 1694-1702. doi: 10.1890/06-1325.1
• Hechinger, R. F., Lafferty, K. D., Huspeni, T. C., Brooks, A. J., & Kuris, A. M. (2007). Can parasites be indicators of free-living diversity? Relationships between species richness and the abundance of larval trematodes and of local benthos and fishes. Oecologia, 151(1), 82-92. doi: 10.1007/S00442-006-0568-Z

2006

• Miura, O., Torchin, M. E., Kuris, A. M., Hechinger, R. F., & Chiba, S. (2006). Introduced cryptic species of parasites exhibit different invasion pathways. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103(52), 19818-19823. doi: 10.1073/Pnas.0609603103
• Miura, O., Kuris, A. M., Torchin, M. E., Hechinger, R. F., & Chiba, S. (2006). Parasites alter host phenotype and may create a new ecological niche for snail hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 273(1592), 1323-1328. doi: 10.1098/Rspb.2005.3451
• Lafferty, K. D., Hechinger, R. F., Shaw, J. C., Whitney, K., & Kuris, A. M. (2006). Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. Disease ecology : community structure and pathogen dynamics (pp. 119-134). Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

2005

• Torchin, M. E., Hechinger, R. F., Huspeni, T. C., Whitney, K. L., & Lafferty, K. D. (2005). The introduced ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa) in Estero de Punta Banda, Mexico: interactions with the native cord grass, Spartina foliosa. Biological Invasions, 7(4), 607-614. doi: 10.1007/S10530-004-5851-5
• Miura, O., Kuris, A. M., Torchin, M. E., Hechinger, R. F., Dunham, E. J., & Chiba, S. (2005). Molecular-genetic analyses reveal cryptic species of trematodes in the intertidal gastropod, Batillaria cumingi (Crosse). International Journal for Parasitology, 35(7), 793-801. doi: 10.1016/J.Ijpara.2005.02.014
• Lafferty, K. D., Hechinger, R. F., Lorda, J., & Soler, L. (2005). Trematodes associated with mangrove habitat in Puerto Rican salt marshes. Journal of Parasitology, 91(3), 697-699. doi: 10.1645/Ge-427r
• Hechinger, R. F., & Lafferty, K. D. (2005). Host diversity begets parasite diversity: bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 272(1567), 1059-1066. doi: 10.1098/Rspb.2005.3070
• Huspeni, T. C., Hechinger, R. F., & Lafferty, K. D. (2005). Trematode parasites as estuarine indicators: Opportunities, applications, and comparisons with conventional community approaches. Estuarine Indicators, 297-314.

2002

• Rigby, M. C., Hechinger, R. F., & Stevens, L. (2002). Why should parasite resistance be costly?. Trends in Parasitology, 18(3), 116-120. doi: 10.1016/S1471-4922(01)02203-6