Ashley C. Love Data-verified

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Researcher

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

faculty

7 h-index 26 pubs 186 cited

Biography and Research Information

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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: 186

Selected Publications

  • A high-lipid diet leads to greater pathology and lower tolerance during infection (2025)
    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)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A high lipid diet leads to greater pathology and lower tolerance during infection (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Effect of dietary macronutrients and immune challenge on gut microbiota, physiology and feeding behaviour in zebra finches (2024)
    8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Male pathology regardless of behaviour drives transmission in an avian host–pathogen system (2023)
    11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Male pathology regardless of behaviour drives transmission in an avian host-pathogen system (2023)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Simulated infection alters the behavior of pair bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors (2023)
    7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Perception of infection: disease-related social cues influence immunity in songbirds (2021)
    25 citations DOI OpenAlex

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