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The Hua Lab
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Ecological-Evolutionary Feedbacks
(Disease ecology)
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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.
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Tadpole infected with trematodes
(E. trivolvis)
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Trematodes encysted in the kidney of a tadpole
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Tadpole infected with Ranavirus
Trematode in its free swimming stage
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Snail (Intermediate
host of trematode)
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Trematode close up
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