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Jamie Caroline Winternitz, Ph.D.


Position: post-doc
Research topics: immunogenetics
Department: External research facility Studenec
Phone: +420 560 590 607
E-mail: jcwinternitzgmail.com

Research interests

  • host-parasite interactions,
  • immunogenetics,
  • genetics of disease resistance in natural populations,
  • sexual selection and parasite-mediated natural. selection

Peer-reviewed publications

Blumstein, D.T., Cooley, L., Winternitz, J, Daniel, J.C. 2008. Do yellow-bellied marmots respond to predator vocalizations? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62(3): 457-468.

Blumstein, D.T., Richardson, D.T., Cooley, L., Winternitz, J., Daniel, J.C. 2008. The structure, meaning, and function of yellow-bellied marmot pup screams. Animal Behavior, 76: 1055-1064.

Winternitz, J.C., Yabsley, M.J., Altizer, S.M. 2012. Parasite infection and host dynamics in a naturally fluctuating rodent population. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 90:1149-1160.

Winternitz, J.C., Wares, J.P. Duplication and population dynamics shape historic patterns of selection and genetic variation at the MHC in rodents. Ecology and Evolution, in press.

Other publications

Han, B.A., Rushmore, J., Fritzsche, A., Satterfield, D., Winternitz, J. 2012. Preempting Pandemics. Science, 337: 647-648. Book Review.

Publications

2015

Winternitz J., Promerová M., Poláková R., Vinkler M., Schnitzer J., Munclinger P., Babik W., Radwan J., Bryja J., Albrecht T.: Effects of heterozygosity and MHC diversity on patterns of extra-pair paternity in the socially monogamous scarlet rosefinch, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 69 (2015) 459-469.


2014

Winternitz J., Wares J. P., Yabsley M. J., Altizer S.: Wild cyclic voles maintain high neutral and MHC diversity without strong evidence for parasite-mediated selection, Evolutionary Ecology 28 (2014) 957-975.


2013

Winternitz J., Minchey S. G., Garamszegi L. Z., Huang S., Stephens P. R., Altizer S.: Sexual selection explains more functional variation in the mammalian major histocompatibility complex than parasitism, Proceedings of the Royal Society. B - Biological Sciences 280 (2013) 20131605.