Publications

Peer-reviewed

14. 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. 2026. Trends Open, in press.

13. Silva LM*, Belli A* & Koella JC. 2026.Testing the redox theory of aging under parasitism. npj Aging. [preprint]

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

2. Silva LM, Vinopal D, Choi VC, Travers-Cook TJ & King KC. Uncoupled shedding and spreading drive transmission heterogeneity.

2. Silva LM & Zeferino TG. Composite virulence: useful metric or conceptual trap? [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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