Publications

2024
  • Weinstein, S.B., JP Dumbacher, LA Durden. Lousy Associations: Sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) Parasitizing rodents and lagomorphs in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada. The Journal of Parasitology 110 (5), 516-520. https://doi.org/10.1645/24-80
2022
  • Weinstein, S.B., W.Z. Stephens, R. Greenhalgh, J.L. Round, M.D. Dearing. Wild herbivorous mammals (genus Neotoma) host a diverse but transient assemblage of fungi. Symbiosis. 87 (1), 45-58
  • Stapleton T., S.B. Weinstein, R. Greenhalgh, and M.D. Dearing. 2022. Successes and limitations of quantitative diet metabarcoding in a small, herbivorous mammal. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22 (7), 2573-2586 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13643
  • Dearing, M.D., T. Orr, R. Greenhalgh, D. Klure, S. Weinstein, T. Stapleton, K. Yamada, M. Nelson, D. Nielsen, M. Matocq, M. Shapiro. 2022. Toxin tolerance across landscapes: Ecological exposure not a prerequisite. Functional Ecology.  36 (8), 2119-2131. DOI:  10.1111/1365-2435.14093
  • Doolin, M.L, S.B. Weinstein, and M.D. Dearing. Pinworms are associated with taxonomic but not functional differences in the gut microbiome of white-throated woodrats (Neotoma albigula). The Journal of Parasitology. 108 (5), 408-418
  • Dearing, M.D. and S.B. Weinstein. Metabolic enabling and detoxification by mammalian gut microbes. Annual Review of Microbiology. 76 (1), 579-596. doi: 10.1146/annurev-micro-111121-085333
  • Achatz, T.J, T.P Chermak, J.R. Martens, E.T. Woodyard, T.G. Rosser, E.E. Pulis, S.B. Weinstein, C.T. McAllister, J.M. Kinsella, V.V. Tkach. 2022. Molecular phylogeny supports invalidation of Didelphodiplostomum and Pharyngostomoides (Digenea: Diplostomoidea) and reveals a Tylodelphys from mammals.  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.196 (1), 124-136. doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab114
  • Achatz, T.J, E.E. Pulis, E.T. Woodyard, T.G. Rosser, J.R. Martens, S.B. Weinstein, C.C. Bonilla, A. Fecchio, V.V. Tkach. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Neodiplostomum and Fibricola (Digenea, Diplostomidae) does not support host-based systematics. Parasitology. 1-42. doi:10.1017/S003118202100216X
2021
  • Weinstein, S.B., R.M. Mota, T.E. Stapleton, D. Klure, R. Greenhalgh, T.J. Orr, C. Dale, K.D. Kohl, M.D. Dearing. 2021. Microbiome stability and structure is governed by host phylogeny over diet and geography in woodrats (Neotoma spp.). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.118 (47) e2108787118; doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108787118 
    • ​Our rat made the cover of PNAS! 
2020
  • Buck, J.C., S.B. Weinstein. 2020. The ecological consequences of a pandemic. Biology Letters. 16: 20200641.  doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0641
  • Weinstein, S.B., K.N. Malanga, B. Agwanda, J.E. Maldonado, M.D. Dearing. 2020. The secret social lives of African crested rats, Lophiomys imhausi. Journal of Mammalogy. 101(6): 1680-1691. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyaa127
  • Buck, J.C., S.B. Weinstein, G. Titcomb, and H.S. Young. Conservation implications of disease control. 2020. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. DOI:10.1002/fee.2215
  • MacDonald, A.J., S.B. Weinstein, K.E. O’Connor and A. Swei, 2020. Circulation of tick-borne spirochetes in tick and small mammal communities in Santa Barbara County, California, USA. Journal of Medical Entomology. DOI:10.1093/jme/tjz253
​​2019 ​2018 ​2017
  • Weinstein, S.B. (2017) Introduced rats and an endemic roundworm: does Rattus rattus contribute to Baylisascaris procyonis transmission in California? Journal of Parasitology: 103(6):677-682. DOI: 10.1645/17-83
    • ​Press: This Week in Parasitism (Podcast)
  • Weinstein, S.B., C.M. Lake, H.M. Chastain, D. Fisk, S. Handali, P.L. Kahn, S. Montgomery, P.P. Wilkins, A.M. Kuris, K.D. Lafferty. (2017) Seroprevalence of Baylisascaris procyonis infection among humans, Santa Barbara County, California, USA, 2014–2016. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 23(8): 1397-1399. DOI: 10.3201/eid2308.170222
  • Weinstein, S.B., G. Titcomb, B. Agwanda, C. Riginos, H. Young. (2017) Predicting parasite responses to defaunation in the African Savanna. Ecology. 98(7): 1839–1848. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1858 
2016
  • Weinstein, S.B. (2016) Demography and productivity of Baylisascaris procyonis in a California raccoon population. Journal of Parasitology. 102(6): 622-628
  • Weinstein, S.B. and A.M. Kuris. (2016) Independent origins of parasitism in Animalia. Biology Letters.12(7):1-5
  • Sapp, S.G.H, Weinstein, S.B., McMahan C.S., and Yabsley, M.J. (2016) Variable infection dynamics in four Peromyscus species following experimental inoculation with Baylisascaris procyonis. Journal of Parasitology. 102(5):538-544. DOI: 10.1645/15-747
  • Wilbur, M.Q., Weinstein, S.B., Briggs C.J (2016) Detecting and quantifying parasite- induced host mortality from intensity data: method comparisons and limitations, International Journal for Parasitology. 46(1): 59-66. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2015.08.009
2015
  • Weinstein, S.B. and K.D. Lafferty. (2015) How do humans affect wildlife nematodes? Trends in Parasitology 31(5):222-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2015.01.005
2014
  • Poinar, G., Weinstein, S.B., Garcia-Vedrenne, A., and Kuris, A.K., (2014) First description of a nematode, Spinitectus gabata n. sp. (Spirurina: Cystidicolidae), from the deep sea oarfish, Regalecus russelii (Regalecidae) in Japan. International Journal of Nematology. 24 (2): 117-123.
  • Kuris, A.M., Jaramillo, A.G., McLaughlin, J.P, Weinstein, S.B., Garcia-Vedrenne, A.E., Poinar, G.O., Pickering, M., Steinauer, M.L., Espinoza, M., Ashford, J.E., and Dunn, G.L.P. (2014). Monsters of the Sea Serpent: Parasites of an Oarfish, Regalecus glesne. Journal of Parasitology. 101(1):41-44. DOI: 10.1645/14-581.1
​2009
  • Weinstein, S. 2009. An aquatic disease on a terrestrial salamander: individual and population level effects of a pathogenic fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, on Batrachoseps attenuatus (Plethodontidae). Copeia 4: 653-660. DOI: 10.1643/CH-08-180 
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