Publications

Peer reviewed publications

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Garvey, D.C., Blanar, C.A., Warburton, E.M. et al. Host ecology and biogeography drive parasite community composition in Atlantic killifishes. Oecologia (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05420-y

Diaz-Tang, G., Meneses, E.M., Patel, K., Mirkin, S., García-Diéguez, L., Pajon, C., Barraza, I., Patel, V., Ghali, H., Tracey, A.P., Blanar, C.A., Lopatkin A.J., & Smith R.P. (2022). Growth productivity as a determinant of the inoculum effect for bactericidal antibiotics. Science Advances, 8(50), p.eadd0924. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add0924

Hunn, D., Blanar, C.A., & Kerstetter, D.W. (2022). Evidence of spatial stability in core fauna community structure of holopelagic Sargassum. Caribbean Journal of Science 52(2): 177-184 https://doi-org.ezproxylocal.library.nova.edu/10.18475/cjos.v52i2.a4

Warburton, E. M., & Blanar, C. A. (2021). Life in the margins: host-parasite relationships in ecological edges. Parasitology research, 120(12), 3965-3977. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00436-021-07355-w

Gumbleton, S. E., Kerstetter, D. W., Blanar, C. A., & Hirons, A. C. (2021). Stable Isotopes and Parasites Indicate Feeding Ecology in Florida, USA, Wading Birds. Waterbirds, 43(3-4), 238-250. https://doi.org/10.1675/063.043.0302

Blanar, C. A., Hornbeck, J. R., Kerstetter, D. W., & Hirons, A. C. (2021). Stable isotopes and community surveys reveal differential use of artificial and natural reefs by South Florida fishes. Heliyon, 7(7), e07413.

Woodstock, M. S., Blanar, C. A., & Sutton, T. T. (2020). Diet and parasites of a mesopelagic fish assemblage in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Biology, 167(12), 1-9.

Velagapudi, P., Ghoubrial, R., Shah, R., Ghali, H., Haas, M., Patel, K.S., Riddell, A., Blanar, C.A. & Smith, R.P. (2020). A potential tradeoff between feeding rate and aversive learning determines intoxication in a Caenorhabditis elegans host-pathogen system. Microbes and Infection. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2020.01.002

Gumbleton, S., Kerstetter, D., Hirons, A., & Blanar, C. (2019). New Host Records and Range Extensions for Helminth Parasites from Wading Birds in Southeastern Florida. Florida Field Naturalist, 47(3), 105

Locke, S. A., Van Dam, A., Caffara, M., Pinto, H. A., López-Hernández, D., & Blanar, C. A. (2018). Validity of the Diplostomoidea and Diplostomida (Digenea, Platyhelminthes) upheld in phylogenomic analysis. International journal for parasitology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2018.07.001

Briggs, S.A., Blanar, C.A., Robblee, M.B., Boyko, C.B., Hirons, A.C. (2017) Host abundance, seagrass cover, and temperature predict infection rates of parasitic isopods (Bopyridae) on caridean shrimp. Journal of Parasitology 103 (6) 653-662

Blanar, C.A., Hewitt, M., McMaster, M., Kirk, J., Wang, Z., Norwood, W., Marcogliese, D.J. (2016). Parasite community similarity in Athabasca River trout-perch (Percopsis omiscomaycus) varies with local-scale land use and sediment hydrocarbons, but not distance or linear gradients. Parasitology Research doi: 10.1007/s00436-016-5151-x

Bracho, O.R., Manchery, C., Haskell, E.C., Blanar, C.A., Smith, R.P. (2016) Circumvention of learning increases intoxication efficacy of nematicidal engineered bacteria. ACS Synthetic Biology. 5 (3) 241-249.

Pandya, D., Blanar, C. A., Smith, R.P., and Haskell, E.C. (2015). Modeling and simulation of Caenorhabditis elegans chemotaxis in response to a dynamic engineered bacteria. Proceedings 29th European Conference on Modeling and Simulation 29.

Thieltges, D. W., Marcogliese, D. J., Blanar, C. A., & Poulin, R. (2013). Trematode prevalence-occupancy relationships on regional and continental spatial scales in marine gastropod hosts. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 490, 147.

Poulin, R., Blanar, C.A., Thieltges, D. W., & Marcogliese, D. J. (2012). Scaling up from epidemiology to biogeography: local infection patterns predict geographical distribution in fish parasites. Journal of Biogeography, 39(6), 1157-1166.

Blanar, C.A., Marcogliese, D. J., & Couillard, C. M. (2011). Natural and anthropogenic factors shape metazoan parasite community structure in mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) from two estuaries in New Brunswick, Canada. Folia Parasitologica, 58(3), 240.

Poulin, R., Blanar, C. A., Thieltges, D., & Marcogliese, D. J. (2011). The biogeography of parasitism in sticklebacks: distance, habitat differences and the similarity in parasite occurrence and abundance. Ecography, 34(4), 540-551.

Blanar, C. A., MacLatchy, D. L., Kieffer, J. D., & Munkittrick, K. R. (2010). Exposure to a mixture of zinc and copper decreases survival and fecundity of Discocotyle sagittata (Leuckart) parasitizing juvenile Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 84(6), 692-697.

Blanar, C. A., Munkittrick, K. R., Houlahan, J., MacLatchy, D. L., & Marcogliese, D. J. (2009). Pollution and parasitism in aquatic animals: a meta-analysis of effect size. Aquatic Toxicology, 93(1), 18-28.

Blanar, C. A., Curtis, M. A., & Chan, H. M. (2005). Environmental dose of toxaphene does not affect the growth, stress response, and selected physiological parameters in juvenile Arctic charr,(Salvelinus alpinus). Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology, 75(3).

Blanar, C. A., Curtis, M. A., & Chan, H. M. (2005). Growth, nutritional composition, and hematology of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) exposed to toxaphene and tapeworm (Diphyllobothrium dendriticum) larvae. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 48(3), 397-404.