Publications

Peer-reviewed

12. Li, J, Will, I, Silva, LM, Travers-Cook, T. Blackwood, PE & King, KC. 2026. Integrating the Microbiome Into Infection Ecology and Evolution in Wild Animals. Molecular Ecology.

11. Zeferino, TG*, Silva, LM* & Koella, JC. 2025. Energetic shifts reflect survival likelihood in Anopheles gambiae. Communications Biology. [preprint]

10. Silva, LM & King, KC. 2025. Primer: The ecology and evolution of virulence. Current Biology.

9. Silva, LM. 2025. Scientific mobility in microbiology – 7. Trends in Microbiology.

8. Silva, LM & Koella, JC. 2025. Virulence evolution: thinking outside of the host. Evolutionary Applications. [preprint].

7. Silva, LM, Vallat, A & Koella, JC. 2025. Mechanisms of host exploitation by a microsporidian parasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. [preprint].

6. Silva, LM & Koella, JC. 2025. Complex interactions in the life cycle of a simple parasite shape the evolution of virulence. PLOS Pathogens. [preprint].

5. Zeferino, TG* & Silva, LM*. 2025. Dexrazoxane as a viable microsporidia control agent in Anopheles gambiae. Acta Tropica. [preprint]

4. Silva, LM*, Zeferino, TG* & Koella, JC. 2025. Vavraia culicis. Trends in Parasitology. [PDF]

3. Silva, LM, King, KC & Koella, JC. 2025. Dissecting transmission to understand parasite evolution. PLOS Pathogens. [preprint]

2. Silva, LM, Acerbi, G, Amann, M & Koella, JC. 2024. Exposure to Pseudomonas spp. increases Anopheles gambiae insecticide resistance in a host-dependent manner. Scientific Reports. [preprint]

1. Hidalgo, BA*, Silva, LM*, Franz, M*, Regoes, RR & Armitage, SAO. 2022. Decomposing virulence to understand bacterial clearance in persistent infections. Nature Communications. [preprint]

Under-review

4. Silva, LM & Zeferino, TG. Composite virulence: useful metric or conceptual trap? [preprint]

3. Travers-Cook, T, Silva, LM, Li, J, Higgins, C, Cornet, C, Zeferino, TG, Nath, A, Gonzalez-Gonzalez, E, Beck, J & Owens, A. Promoting academic agency to empower early-career researchers.

2. Silva, LM*, Belli, A* & Koella, JC. Testing the redox theory of aging under parasitism. [preprint]

1. Silva, LM. Transcriptomic signatures of disease tolerance and environmental persistence in a mosquito-microsporidian system. [preprint].

* joint co-first authorship

Theses

Doctoral thesis

Silva. 2021. Pathogen infection dynamics and the evolution of host resistance and tolerance.

MSc thesis

Silva. 2017. The role of Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule 1 for the bacterial microbiota of Tribolium castaneum.

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