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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Ashley C. Love

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Researcher

Faculty Researcher

7 h-index 26 pubs 188 cited

  • Animals
  • Finches
  • Bird Diseases
  • Mycoplasma Infections
  • Mycoplasma gallisepticum
  • Songbirds
  • Gastrointestinal Microbiome
  • Host-Parasite Interactions
  • Male
  • Diet
  • Stress, Physiological
  • Female
  • Swallows
  • Corticosterone
  • Canaries

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Ashley C. Love's research investigates host-parasite interactions in avian systems, with a focus on the influence of diet, stress, and environmental factors on disease susceptibility and transmission. Her work examines how nutritional inputs, such as high-lipid diets, impact pathology and host tolerance during infection. Love also studies the effects of urbanization and parasitism on the gut microbiota of songbirds, including Darwin's finches. Her research has explored how simulated infections alter bird behavior and how disease-related social cues influence immunity. Love has published 26 papers, accumulating 177 citations and an h-index of 7. She collaborates with several researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Sarah E. DuRant, Erin L. Sauer, Weston Perrine, and Jeffrey A. Lewis.

Metrics

  • h-index: 7
  • Publications: 26
  • Citations: 188

Selected Publications

  • A high-lipid diet leads to greater pathology and lower tolerance during infection (2025)
    Journal of Experimental Biology 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Diet driven differences in host tolerance are linked to shifts in global gene expression in a common avian host-pathogen system (2024)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A high lipid diet leads to greater pathology and lower tolerance during infection (2024)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Effect of dietary macronutrients and immune challenge on gut microbiota, physiology and feeding behaviour in zebra finches (2024)
    Molecular Ecology 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Male pathology regardless of behaviour drives transmission in an avian host–pathogen system (2023)
    Journal of Animal Ecology 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Male pathology regardless of behaviour drives transmission in an avian host-pathogen system (2023)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Simulated infection alters the behavior of pair bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors (2023)
    Behavioral Ecology 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Perception of infection: disease-related social cues influence immunity in songbirds (2021)
    Biology Letters 28 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Weathered Mississippi Canyon 252 crude oil ingestion alters cytokine signaling, lowers heterophil:lymphocyte ratio, and induces sickness behavior in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) (2020)
    Environmental Pollution 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Captivity alters neuroendocrine regulators of stress and reproduction in the hypothalamus in response to acute stress (2020)
    General and Comparative Endocrinology 19 citations DOI OpenAlex

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