Works by Sparks, Alexandra M.

Results: 13

The genetic architecture of helminth-specific immune responses in a wild population of Soay sheep (Ovis aries).

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PLoS Genetics, 2019, v. 15, n. 11, p. 1, doi. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008461

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Sparks, Alexandra M.;
Watt, Kathryn;
Sinclair, Rona;
Pilkington, Jill G.;
Pemberton, Josephine M.;
McNeilly, Tom N.;
Nussey, Daniel H.;
Johnston, Susan E.

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Article

Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cell Proportions Are Diminished in Young Helminth Infected Children and Restored by Curative Anti-helminthic Treatment.

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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015, v. 9, n. 3, p. 1, doi. 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003627

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Nausch, Norman;
Appleby, Laura J.;
Sparks, Alexandra M.;
Midzi, Nicholas;
Mduluza, Takafira;
Mutapi, Francisca

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Article

Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cell Proportions Are Diminished in Young Helminth Infected Children and Restored by Curative Anti-helminthic Treatment.

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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015, v. 9, n. 3, p. 1, doi. 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003627

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Nausch, Norman;
Appleby, Laura J.;
Sparks, Alexandra M.;
Midzi, Nicholas;
Mduluza, Takafira;
Mutapi, Francisca

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Article

Telomere heritability and parental age at conception effects in a wild avian population.

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Molecular Ecology, 2022, v. 31, n. 23, p. 6324, doi. 10.1111/mec.15804

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Sparks, Alexandra M.;
Spurgin, Lewis G.;
van der Velde, Marco;
Fairfield, Eleanor A.;
Komdeur, Jan;
Burke, Terry;
Richardson, David S.;
Dugdale, Hannah L.

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Article

Vitamin D status is heritable and under environment‐dependent selection in the wild.

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Molecular Ecology, 2022, v. 31, n. 18, p. 4607, doi. 10.1111/mec.16318

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Sparks, Alexandra M.;
Johnston, Susan E.;
Handel, Ian;
Pilkington, Jill G.;
Berry, Jacqueline;
Pemberton, Josephine M.;
Nussey, Daniel H.;
Mellanby, Richard J.

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Article

Associations between MHC class II variation and phenotypic traits in a free‐living sheep population.

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Molecular Ecology, 2022, v. 31, n. 3, p. 902, doi. 10.1111/mec.16265

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Huang, Wei;
Dicks, Kara L.;
Ballingall, Keith T.;
Johnston, Susan E.;
Sparks, Alexandra M.;
Watt, Kathryn;
Pilkington, Jill G.;
Pemberton, Josephine M.

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Article

A genetic analysis of Trichuris trichiura and Trichuris suis from Ecuador.

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Parasites & Vectors, 2015, v. 8, n. 1, p. 1, doi. 10.1186/s13071-015-0782-9

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Meekums, Hayley;
Hawash, Mohamed B. F.;
Sparks, Alexandra M.;
Oviedo, Yisela;
Sandoval, Carlos;
Chico, Martha E.;
Stothard, J. Russell;
Cooper, Philip J.;
Nejsum, Peter;
Betson, Martha

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Article

Sex‐dependent effects of parental age on offspring fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird.

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Evolution Letters, 2022, v. 6, n. 6, p. 438, doi. 10.1002/evl3.300

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Sparks, Alexandra M.;
Hammers, Martijn;
Komdeur, Jan;
Burke, Terry;
Richardson, David S.;
Dugdale, Hannah L.

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Article

Helpers compensate for age‐related declines in parental care and offspring survival in a cooperatively breeding bird.

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Evolution Letters, 2021, v. 5, n. 2, p. 143, doi. 10.1002/evl3.213

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Hammers, Martijn;
Kingma, Sjouke A.;
Boheemen, Lotte A.;
Sparks, Alexandra M.;
Burke, Terry;
Dugdale, Hannah L.;
Richardson, David S.;
Komdeur, Jan

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Article

Into the wild—WAMBAM goes to Canada.

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2018

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Morrissey, Michael B.;
Janeiro, Maria João;
Sparks, Alexandra M.;
White, Stephen;
Pigeon, Gabriel;
Teplitsky, Céline;
Réale, Denis;
Milot, Emmanuel

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Proceeding

A meta‐analysis on the heritability of vertebrate telomere length.

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2022, v. 35, n. 10, p. 1283, doi. 10.1111/jeb.14071

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Chik, Heung Ying Janet;
Sparks, Alexandra M.;
Schroeder, Julia;
Dugdale, Hannah L.

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Article

Estimation of environmental, genetic and parental age at conception effects on telomere length in a wild mammal.

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2021, v. 34, n. 2, p. 296, doi. 10.1111/jeb.13728

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Lieshout, Sil H. J.;
Sparks, Alexandra M.;
Bretman, Amanda;
Newman, Chris;
Buesching, Christina D.;
Burke, Terry;
Macdonald, David W.;
Dugdale, Hannah L.

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Article

The impact of helping experience on helper life-history and fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird.

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Evolution, 2024, v. 78, n. 4, p. 690, doi. 10.1093/evolut/qpad199

By:

Chesterton, Ellie;
Sparks, Alexandra M;
Burke, Terry;
Komdeur, Jan;
Richardson, David S;
Dugdale, Hannah L

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Article