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TY - JOUR
T1 - Fluctuating temperatures have a surprising effect on disease transmission
AU - Shocket, Marta S
PY - 2023/9/8
Y1 - 2023/9/8
N2 - Theory predicts that temperature fluctuations should reduce performance near an organism's thermal optimum. A new study in PLOS Biology found fluctuations increased parasite transmission instead, highlighting questions about how climate change will impact infectious diseases. [Abstract copyright: Copyright: © 2023 Marta S. Shocket. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.]
AB - Theory predicts that temperature fluctuations should reduce performance near an organism's thermal optimum. A new study in PLOS Biology found fluctuations increased parasite transmission instead, highlighting questions about how climate change will impact infectious diseases. [Abstract copyright: Copyright: © 2023 Marta S. Shocket. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.]
KW - Climate Change
KW - Parasitic Diseases
KW - Temperature
KW - Parasites
KW - Daphnia
KW - Animals
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002288
DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002288
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37703528
VL - 21
JO - Plos Biology
JF - Plos Biology
SN - 1544-9173
IS - 9
M1 - e3002288
ER -