SARA B WEINSTEIN, PHD
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​Curriculum Vitae
 2020
  • 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
  • Weinstein, S.B, J. C. Van Wert, M. Kinsella, V. V. Tkach, and K. D. Lafferty. (2019)
    Infection at an ecotone: Cross-system foraging increases satellite parasites but decreases core parasites in raccoons. Ecology. 100(9): e02808.
  • Weinstein, S.B†, J. C. Van Wert†, M. Kinsella, V. V. Tkach, and K. D. Lafferty. (2019) Southern California and range-wide raccoon gastrointestinal helminth database. Ecology. 100 (9): e02807.
  • Steinauer, M.L., Garcia-Vedrenne A.E.,  Weinstein S.B., Kuris, A.M.  (2019) Acanthocephalan parasites of the oarfish, Regalecus russelii (Regalecidae), with a description of a new species of Gymnorhadinorhynchus (Acanthocephala: Gymnorhadinorhynchidae). Journal of Parasitology: 105 (1), 124- 132. DOI: 10.1645/17-53
​2018
  • Sapp, S.G.H, Handali, S, Weinstein, S.B., Yabsley, M.J. (2018) Detection and evaluation of antibody response to a Baylisascaris-specific antigen in rodent hosts using western blotting and ELISA. Journal of Parasitology: 104 (6), 651-659. DOI: 10.1645/18-48.
  • Buck, J.C., Weinstein, S.B., H.S. Young. (2018) Ecological and evolutionary consequences of parasite avoidance. Trends in Ecology and Evolution: 33(8):619-632. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree. 2018.05.001
  • Weinstein, S.B., J.C. Buck, H.S. Young. (2018) A landscape of disgust. Science: 35 (6381): 1213-1214. DOI: 10.1126/science.aas8694
  • Weinstein, S.B., C.W. Moura, J.F. Mendez, K.D. Lafferty. (2018) Fear of feces? Trade-offs between disease risk and foraging drive animal activity around raccoon latrines. Oikos: 127 (7): 927-934.  DOI:10.1111/oik.0486
​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
  • 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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