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- M. Craig, X. Deng, and D.V. McLeod 2025. Viral evolution during primary infection in immunocompromised hosts.
bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.01.673077 .
- D.V. McLeod, and S. Gandon 2025. Horizontal gene transfer, segregation loss, and the speed of microbial adaptation.
Evol. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qraf024.
- D.V. McLeod, C. Bank, and S. Gandon 2024. A multilocus perspective on the evolutionary dynamics of multistrain pathogens.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 121:e2401578121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401578121.
- J.F.K. Elliot, D.V. McLeod, T.B. Taylor, E.R. Westra, S. Gandon, and B.N.J. Watson 2024. Conditions for the spread of CRISPR-Cas
immune systems in bacterial populations. The ISME journal 18:wrae108. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrae108.
- D.V. McLeod and S. Gandon 2022. Effects of epistasis and recombination between vaccine-escape
and virulence alleles on the dynamics of pathogen adaptation. Nature Ecology and Evolution.
6:786-793. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01709-y.
- D.V. McLeod, L.M. Wahl and N. Mideo. 2021. Mosaic vaccination: how distributing different vaccines
across a population could improve epidemic control. Evolution Letters. 5:458-471. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.252.
- D.V. McLeod, G. Wild and F. Úbeda. 2021. Epigenetic memories and the evolution of infectious
diseases. Nature Communications. 12:4273. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24580-0
- D.V. McLeod and S. Gandon. 2021. Understanding the evolution of multiple drug resistance in
structured populations. eLife. 10:e65645. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.65645
- D.V. McLeod and T. Day. 2019. Why is sterility virulence most common in sexually transmitted
infections? Examining the role of epidemiology. Evolution. 73:872-882. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13718
- D.V. McLeod and T. Day. 2019. Social evolution under demographic stochasticity. PLoS Comput.
Biol. 15(2): e1006739. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006739
- T.Day and D.V. McLeod. 2018. The role of phenotypic plasticity in moderating evolutionary conflict.
American Naturalist. 192:230-240. https://doi.org/10.1086/698170
- D.V. McLeod and T. Day. 2017. Female plasticity tends to reduce sexual conflict. Nature Ecology and
Evolution. 1:054. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-016-0054
- C.E. Cressler, D.V. McLeod, C. Rozins, J. van den Hoogen, and T. Day. 2016. The adaptive evolution
of virulence: a review of theoretical predictions and experimental tests. Parasitology. 143:915-930. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003118201500092X
- D.V. McLeod and T. Day. 2015. Pathogen evolution under host avoidance plasticity. Proceedings of
the Royal Society B. 281:20151656. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1656
- D.V. McLeod and T.Day. 2014. Sexually transmitted infection and the evolution of serial monogamy.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 281:20141726. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1726
- D.V. McLeod and G.Wild. 2014. The relationship between ecology and the optimal helping strategy
in cooperative breeders. Journal of Theoretical Biology 354:25-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.03.003
- D.V. McLeod and G. Wild. 2013. Ecological constraints influence the emergence of cooperative
breeding when population dynamics determine fitness of helpers. Evolution 67:3221-3232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12188
- D.V. McLeod, R.A. Cottrill and Y.E.Morbey. 2011. Sea lamprey wounding in Canadian waters of Lake
Huron from 2000 to 2009: Temporal changes differ among regions. Journal of Great Lakes Research
37:601-608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2011.08.003
