Publications

2025

Tang, H., Horn, C.J., Chua, S., Plitt, S.F., Yuli, S., and Luong, L.T. In press. The effects of sleep deprivation on susceptibility to parasitic infection in Drosophila nigrospiracula. Physiological Entomology, accepted Feb. 2025.

Horn, C.J., Yuli S., Berry J.A., and Luong L.T. 2025. A male-killing Spiroplasma endosymbiont has age-mediated impacts on Drosophila endurance and sleep. J Insect Physiol.161: 104723. doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.

Liang, C. and Luong, L.T.  2025. Carry-over non-consumptive effects: impact of parasite exposure during larval stage on adult phenotype. Parasitology. doi:10.1017/S0031182025000265

Liang, C. and Luong, L.T. 2024. Ghosts of parasites past influence current non-consumptive effects in Drosophila nigrospiracula. International Journal of Parasitology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2024.04.008

Horn, C. J., Luong, L. T., and Visscher, D. R. 2024. Parasites and the ecology of fear: Nonconsumptive effects of ectoparasites on larvae reduce growth in simulated Drosophila. Ecology and Evolution 14(8). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70079

D.B.M. Patuwatha Withanage, and Luong, L.T. 2024. Phasmarhabditis californica (Nematoda: Rhabditidae) has reduced establishment success and progeny production in the presence of Pristionchus entomophagus (Nematoda: Diplogastridae). Journal of Parasitology 110: 200-205.   doi: 10.1645/24-5.

D.B.M. Patuwatha Withanage, and Luong, L.T. 2024. Chemotaxis response of Phasmarhabditis californica (Family: Rhabditidae) and Pristionchus entomophagus (Family: Neodiplogasteridae) to the mucus of four slug species. Journal of Parasitology 110: 59-65. doi: 10.1645/23-61.

2023

Horn, C.J., Robinson, S., Tang, H., Luong, L.T. 2023. Ectoparasitic mites exert non-consumptive effects on the larvae of a fruit fly host. Parasitology 150: 934–938. doi: 10.1017/S0031182023000744

Horn, C.J., Liang, C., and Luong, L.T. 2023. Parasite preferences for large host body size can drive overdispersion in a fly-mite association. International Journal of Parasitology 53: 327-332. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2023.03.003

D.B.M. Patuwatha Withanage,  Howe, D.K., Richart C., Mc Donnell R.J., Denver, D. and Luong, L.T. 2023. Pestiferous slugs and their associated nematodes in agricultural fields, greenhouses, and nurseries in Alberta, Canada. Journal of Helminthology. 97:e41. doi: 10.1017/S0022149X23000226.

Horn, C.J., Visscher, D.R., and Luong, L.T. 2022. Relative contributions of parasite consumptive and non-consumptive effects to host population suppression in simulated fly-mite populations. Oecologia 200: 339-347. doi: 10.1007/s00442-022-05268-8

Horn, C.J., Wasylenko, J.A., and Luong, L.T. 2022. Scared of the dark? Phototaxis as behavioural immunity in a host-parasite system. Biology Letters 18: 20210531. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0531

Horn, C.J., Yoon, T., Mierzejewsk, M.K., and  Luong, L.T. 2022. Endosymbiotic male-killing Spiroplasma affects the physiological and behavioural ecology of Macrocheles-Drosophila interactions. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01972-21

2021

Koprivnikar J., S.B. Weinstein, L.T. Luong, and J.C. Buck. 2021. Editorial: Ecology and evolution of non-consumptive effects in host-parasite interactions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.779102

Horn, C.J. and Luong, L.T. 2021. Trade-offs between reproduction and behavioural resistance against ectoparasite infection. 2021. Physiology and Behavior 239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2021.113524

Brophy, T. and Luong, L.T. 2021. The influence of infection status and parasitism risk on host dispersal and susceptibility to infection in Drosophila nigrospiracula. Parasitology, 1-27. doi:10.1017/S0031182021001979

2020

Brophy, T. and Luong, L.T. 2020. Ectoparasite-induced increase in Drosophila host metabolic rate. Physiological Entomology 46: 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/phen.12334

Brophy, T., Mc Donnell, R.J., Howe, D.K., Denver, D.R., Ross, J.L., and Luong, L.T. 2020. Nematodes associated with terrestrial slugs in the Edmonton region of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Helminthology  94:e200. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X20000838

Brophy, T. Howe, D.K., Denver, D.R., and Luong, L.T. 2020. First report of a gastropod parasitic nematode Phasmarhabditis californica (Nematoda: Rhabditidae) in Alberta, Canada. The Journal of Nematology 52: e2020-92.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21307/jofnem-2020-092

Horn, C.J., Mierzejewski, M.K., Elahi, M.E., and Luong, L.T. 2020. Extending the ecology of fear: Parasite-mediated sexual selection drives host response to parasites. Physiology & Behavior 224:113041.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.113041.

2019

Durkin, E.S., Proctor, H., and Luong, L.T. 2019. Life history of Macrocheles muscaedomesticae (Parasitiformes: Macrochelidae): new insights on life history and evidence of facultative parasitism on Drosophila. Experimental and Applied Acarology 79: 309-321. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-019-00431-y

Mierzejewski, M.K., Horn, C.J. and Luong, L.T. 2019. Ecology of fear: environment-dependent parasite avoidance among ovipositing Drosophila. Parasitology 146:1564-1570. doi: 10.1017/S0031182019000854

Horn, C.J. and Luong, L.T. 2019. Current parasite resistance trades off with future defences and flight performance. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73: 77. doi: 10.1007/s00265-019-2697-5

Durkin, E.S. and Luong, L.T. 2019. Phenotypic plasticity more essential to maintaining variation in host-attachment behaviour than evolutionary trade-offs in a facultatively parasitic mite. Parasitology 146: 1289-1295. doi: 10.1017/S0031182019000507

Luong, L.T. and Mathot, K.J. 2019. Facultative parasites as evolutionary stepping-stones toward parasitic lifestyles. Biology Letters 5: 20190058. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0058

2018

Luong, L.T., Chambers, J.L., Moizis, A., Stock, T.M., and St. Clair, C.C. 2018. Helminth parasites and zoonotic risk associated with urban coyotes (Canis latrans) in Alberta, Canada. Journal of Helminthology 27: 1-5. doi: 10.1017/S0022149X1800113X.

Horn, C.J. and Luong, L.T. 2018. Proximity to parasites reduces host fitness independent of infection in a Drosophila-Macrocheles system. Parasitology 1145: 1564-1569. doi: 10.1017/S0031182018000379.

Horn, C.J , Mierzejewski, M.K., and Luong, L.T. 2018. Host respiration rate and injury-derived cues drive host preference by an ectoparasite of fruit flies. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 91: 896-903. doi: 10.1086/697466.

Durkin, E.S. and Luong, L.T. 2018. Experimental evolution of infectious behaviour in a facultative ectoparasite”. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31: 362-370. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13227

2017

Chin, H.M.H., Luong, L.T., and Shostak, A.W. 2017. Longitudinal study of parasite induced mortality of a long-lived host: the importance of exposure to non-parasitic stressors. Parasitology 144: 1943-1955. doi: 10.1017/S0031182017001251.

Luong, L.T., Brophy, T., Stolz, E., and Chan, S.J. 2017. State-dependent parasitism by a facultative parasite of fruit flies. Parasitology  144: 1468-1475. doi: 10.1017/S0031182017000890.

Luong, L.T., Horn, C.J., Brophy, T. 2017. Mitey costly: Energetic costs of parasite avoidance and infection. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 90: 471-477. doi: 10.1086/691704.

Luong, L.T. and Subasinghe, D. 2017. A facultative ectoparasite attains higher reproductive success as a parasite than its free-living conspecifics. Experimental and Applied Acarology 71: 73-70. doi: 10.1007/s10493-016-0098-2.

2015-2016

Chin, H.M.H., Luong, L.T., and Shostak, A.W. 2016. Rehydration methods to recover cysticercoids of Hymenolepis diminuta from dry flour beetle carcasses. Journal of Helminthology 91: 470-478. doi: 10.1017/S0022149X16000365.

Campbell, E. and Luong, L.T. 2016. Mite choice generates sex and size-biased infection in Drosophila hydei. Parasitology 143: 787-793. doi: 10.1017/S0031182016000305.

Durkin, E.S., Luong, L.T., and Bird, J. 2015. Mechanisms underlying parasite infection: influence of host body mass and age on chewing louse distribution among brown-headed cowbirds. Parasitology Research 114: 4169-4174.

Luong, L.T., Penoni, L.R., Horn C.J., and Polak, M. 2015. Physical and physiological costs of ectoparasitic mites on host flight endurance. Ecological Entomology 40: 518-524.