James S Adelman
Assistant Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Lowa State University
United States of America
Biography
He is a disease ecologist broadly interested in how variation in organismal traits influences population-level processes. Specifically, he is interested in how individual variation in immune and behavioral responses to infection alter the transmission and evolution of wildlife pathogens.
Research Interest
Disease Ecology, Ecological Immunology, Physiological Ecology, Wildlife.
Publications
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Adelman, J.S., L. Kirkpatrick, J.L. Grodio, and D.M. Hawley. 2013. House finch populations differ in early inflammatory signaling and pathogen tolerance at the peak of Mycoplasma gallisepticum infection. The American Naturalist 181: 674-689.
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Adelman, JS, Carter AW, Hopkins WA, Hawley DM (2013) Deposition of pathogenic Mycoplasma gallisepticum onto bird feeders: host pathology is more important than temperature-driven increases in food intake. Biology Letters 9: 20130594.
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Adelman, J.S., S.C. Moyers, and D.M. Hawley. 2014. Using remote biomonitoring to understand heterogeneity in immune-responses and disease-dynamics in small, free-living animals. Integrative and Comparative Biology 54: 377-386.
