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Courtney A. C. Coon
Researcher at University of South Florida
Publications - 20
Citations - 650
Courtney A. C. Coon is an academic researcher from University of South Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Immune system & Population. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 19 publications receiving 535 citations. Previous affiliations of Courtney A. C. Coon include University of Pretoria & Oregon State University.
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Indirect effects of parasites in invasions
Alison M. Dunn,Mark E. Torchin,Melanie J. Hatcher,Melanie J. Hatcher,Peter M. Kotanen,Dana M. Blumenthal,James E. Byers,Courtney A. C. Coon,Victor M. Frankel,Victor M. Frankel,Robert D. Holt,Ruth A. Hufbauer,Andrew Kanarek,Kristina A. Schierenbeck,Lorne M. Wolfe,Sarah E. Perkins +15 more
TL;DR: The indirect effects of parasitic infection are important at a range of biological scales from within a host to the whole ecosystem in determining invasion success and impact, and requires an interdisciplinary approach by ecologists and parasitologists across animal and plant systems.
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Epigenetic Variation May Compensate for Decreased Genetic Variation with Introductions: A Case Study Using House Sparrows ( Passer domesticus ) on Two Continents
Aaron W. Schrey,Courtney A. C. Coon,Michael T. Grispo,Mohammed Awad,Titus Imboma,Earl D. McCoy,Henry R. Mushinsky,Christina L. Richards,Lynn B. Martin +8 more
TL;DR: Methylation diversity was similar between populations, in spite of known lower genetic diversity in Nairobi, which suggests that epigenetic variation may compensate for decreased genetic diversity as a source of phenotypic variation during introduction.
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Captivity induces hyper-inflammation in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus).
TL;DR: Investigation of whether captivity duration impacted the regulation of a key innate immune response, inflammation, of a common wild bird species, the house sparrow, found that captivity appears to have induced a hyper-inflammatory state in house sprows, perhaps due to disregulation of glucocorticoids, natural microflora or both.
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Surveillance for microbes and range expansion in house sparrows
TL;DR: Testing the hypothesis that variation in the regulation of inflammation contributed to the spread of house sparrows across Kenya, one of the world's most recent invasions of this species, suggests changes in microbe surveillance might have been important to theHouse sparrow invasion of Kenya.
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Acute phase responses vary with pathogen identity in house sparrows (Passer domesticus)
TL;DR: Despite using what are moderate-to-high pyrogen doses for other vertebrates, only house sparrows challenged with LPS showed measurable APRs andFebrile, behavioral, and physiological responses to fungal and viral mimetics had minimal effects.