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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Ashley C. Love

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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

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Ashley C. Love's research investigates the interplay between host physiology, behavior, and disease in avian species. Her work examines how factors such as captivity, diet, and urbanization influence immune responses, stress endocrinology, and the gastrointestinal microbiome. Love has studied the effects of *Mycoplasma gallisepticum* infection in house finches, observing changes in corticosterone concentrations and behavior. Her research also explores how disease-related social cues impact immunity and how simulated infections alter bird behavior.

Further investigations by Love include the impact of dietary macronutrients and immune challenges on gut microbiota, physiology, and feeding behavior in zebra finches. She has also examined the gut microbiota of Darwin's finch nestlings in relation to urbanization and parasitism. Collaborations with Sarah E. DuRant, Erin L. Sauer, and Weston Perrine at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville have resulted in multiple shared publications. Love has published 26 works with an h-index of 7 and 188 citations.

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 9 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 29 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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