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The Hua Lab
Ecological-Evolutionary Feedbacks
(Disease ecology)
***All artwork by the talented lab alum, Benjamin McLauchlin! Check out his work LINK
Hua et al. 2017
Approaches
We have studied three parasites in the Hua lab- trematodes, ranavirus and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). Most recently we have focused on how evolutionary responses to pesticides influence tadpole susceptibility to trematodes.
Tadpole infected with trematodes
(E. trivolvis)
Trematodes encysted in the kidney of a tadpole
Tadpole infected with Ranavirus
Trematode in its free swimming stage
Snail (Intermediate
host of trematode)
Trematode close up
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