Publications
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. In Press.
- 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. In Press. 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. In Press. 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. In Press
- Dearing, M.D. and S.B. Weinstein. Metabolic enabling and detoxification by mammalian gut microbes. Annual Review of Microbiology. In Press. 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. 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
- 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!
- Weinstein, S.B., M.D. Dearing. 2021. Harvest mice feed on overwintering western monarchs. Ecology. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3607
- Koprivnikar J., S.B. Weinstein L.T. Luong, and J.C. Buck. 2021. Editorial: Ecology and Evolution of Non-Consumptive Effects in Host-Parasite Interactions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9:1-4. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.779102
- 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
- Press: New York Times (1, 2), NPR- All Things Considered, IFLscience, ScienceNews
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Press: ScienceNow (podcast), Laboratory News (podcast), Inside Science
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Press: The Current
- 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