Jamie Caroline Winternitz

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

Winternitz J., Abbate J. L.: Examining the evidence for major histocompatibility complex-dependent mate selection in humans and nonhuman primates, Research and Reports in Biology 6 (2015) 73-88.

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.

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.

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.