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R. Hechinger

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R. Hechinger — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 25
Works: 93
Citations: 4,328

Most-cited papers

Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts?
A. Dobson, K. Lafferty, A. Kuris, R. Hechinger +1 more
2008Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America709 citations Open access
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Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries
A. Kuris, R. Hechinger, J. Shaw, K. L. Whitney +14 more
2008Nature615 citations
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Host diversity begets parasite diversity: bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hosts
R. Hechinger, K. Lafferty
2005Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences443 citations Open access
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Parasites Affect Food Web Structure Primarily through Increased Diversity and Complexity
J. Dunne, K. Lafferty, A. Dobson, R. Hechinger +10 more
2013PLoS Biology281 citations Open access
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Molecular-genetic analyses reveal cryptic species of trematodes in the intertidal gastropod, Batillaria cumingi (Crosse).
O. Miura, A. Kuris, M. Torchin, R. Hechinger +2 more
2005International Journal of Parasitology215 citations
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Parasites alter host phenotype and may create a new ecological niche for snail hosts
O. Miura, A. Kuris, M. Torchin, R. Hechinger +1 more
2006Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences139 citations Open access
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Can parasites be indicators of free-living diversity? Relationships between species richness and the abundance of larval trematodes and of local benthos and fishes
R. Hechinger, K. Lafferty, Todd C. Huspeni, A. Brooks +1 more
2007Oecologia132 citations
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Why should parasite resistance be costly?
M. Rigby, R. Hechinger, L. Stevens
2002Trends in Parasitology127 citations
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Social organization in a flatworm: trematode parasites form soldier and reproductive castes
R. Hechinger, Alan C. Wood, A. Kuris
2011Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences115 citations Open access
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Introduced cryptic species of parasites exhibit different invasion pathways
O. Miura, M. Torchin, A. Kuris, R. Hechinger +1 more
2006Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America115 citations Open access
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A Common Scaling Rule for Abundance, Energetics, and Production of Parasitic and Free-Living Species
R. Hechinger, K. Lafferty, A. Dobson, James H. Brown +1 more
2011Science107 citations Open access
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Parasites as prey in aquatic food webs: implications for predator infection and parasite transmission
D. Thieltges, P. Amundsen, R. Hechinger, Pieter T. J. Johnson +6 more
2013103 citations Open access
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Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem.
K. Lafferty, R. Hechinger, J. Shaw, K. L. Whitney +1 more
200694 citations
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Food webs including parasites, biomass, body sizes, and life stages for three California/Baja California estuaries
R. Hechinger, K. Lafferty, J. McLaughlin, B. L. Fredensborg +7 more
201175 citations Open access
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How large is the hand in the puppet? Ecological and evolutionary factors affecting body mass of 15 trematode parasitic castrators in their snail host
R. Hechinger, K. Lafferty, Frank T. Iii Mancini, R. R. Warner +1 more
2009Evolutionary Ecology71 citations
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Faunal survey and identification key for the trematodes (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) infecting Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) as first intermediate host
R. Hechinger
201263 citations Open access
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A Metabolic and Body-Size Scaling Framework for Parasite Within-Host Abundance, Biomass, and Energy Flux
R. Hechinger
2013American Naturalist59 citations
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Trematode parasites as estuarine indicators: opportunities, applications and comparisons with conventional community approaches,
Todd C. Huspeni, R. Hechinger, K. Lafferty
200554 citations
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Flying shells: historical dispersal of marine snails across Central America
O. Miura, M. Torchin, E. Bermingham, D. Jacobs +1 more
2012Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences44 citations Open access
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Host density increases parasite recruitment but decreases host risk in a snail-trematode system.
Julia C. Buck, R. Hechinger, Alan C. Wood, Tara E. Stewart +2 more
2017Ecology42 citations Open access
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Trematodes Indicate Animal Biodiversity in the Chilean Intertidal and Lake Tanganyika
R. Hechinger, K. Lafferty, A. Kuris
2008Journal of Parasitology41 citations
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Parasite species richness and intensity of interspecific interactions increase with latitude in two wide-ranging hosts.
M. Torchin, O. Miura, R. Hechinger
2015Ecology35 citations Open access
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Mortality affects adaptive allocation to growth and reproduction: field evidence from a guild of body snatchers
R. Hechinger
2010BMC Evolutionary Biology32 citations Open access
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Social Organization in Parasitic Flatworms—Four Additional Echinostomoid Trematodes Have a Soldier Caste and One Does Not
A. García-Vedrenne, Anastasia Quintana, A. DeRogatis, K. Martyn +2 more
2016Journal of Parasitology27 citations
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Sea-level driven glacial-age refugia and post-glacial mixing on subtropical coasts, a palaeohabitat and genetic study
G. Dolby, R. Hechinger, Ryan A. Ellingson, L. Findley +2 more
2016Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences27 citations Open access
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Broadening the ecology of fear: non-lethal effects arise from diverse responses to predation and parasitism
D. R. Daversa, R. Hechinger, E. Madin, A. Fenton +5 more
2021Proceedings of the Royal Society B25 citations Open access
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Broadening the ecology of fear: non-lethal effects arise from diverse responses to predation and parasitism
D. R. Daversa, R. Hechinger, E. Madin, A. Fenton +4 more
2019bioRxiv24 citations Open access
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Sea‐level rise, habitat loss, and potential extirpation of a salt marsh specialist bird in urbanized landscapes
J. Rosencranz, K. Thorne, Kevin J. Buffington, J. Takekawa +8 more
2018Ecology and Evolution24 citations Open access
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The role of competition - colonization tradeoffs and spatial heterogeneity in promoting trematode coexistence.
E. Mordecai, Alejandra G. Jaramillo, J. Ashford, R. Hechinger +1 more
2016Ecology24 citations
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A lack of crowding? Body size does not decrease with density for two behavior-manipulating parasites.
K. Weinersmith, Chloe Warinner, Virginia Tan, D. Harris +4 more
2014Integrative and Comparative Biology24 citations
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Ecology of the Brain Trematode Euhaplorchis californiensis and Its Host, the California Killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis)
J. Shaw, R. Hechinger, K. Lafferty, A. Kuris
2010Journal of Parasitology23 citations
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Reduced parasite diversity and abundance in a marine whelk in its expanded geographical range
Julie V. Hopper, A. Kuris, JULIO LORDA, Sara E. Simmonds +2 more
201422 citations
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A brain‐infecting parasite impacts host metabolism both during exposure and after infection is established
L. Nadler, E. Bengston, E. Eliason, Cameron Hassibi +8 more
2020Functional Ecology21 citations Open access
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Trematodes with a reproductive division of labour: heterophyids also have a soldier caste and early infections reveal how colonies become structured.
A. García-Vedrenne, Anastasia Quintana, A. DeRogatis, C. M. Dover +3 more
2017International Journal of Parasitology21 citations Open access
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Challenges in the recognition of trematode species: Consideration of hypotheses in an inexact science
T. Cribb, D. Barton, D. Blair, N. Bott +26 more
2025Journal of Helminthology20 citations
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A native-range source for a persistent trematode parasite of the exotic New Zealand mudsnail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) in France
C. Gérard, O. Miura, JULIO LORDA, T. Cribb +2 more
2016Hydrobiologia19 citations
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Parasitic copepods (Crustacea, Hexanauplia) on fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Central Pacific
Lilia C. Soler-Jiménez, F. N. Morales-Serna, M. Aguirre-Macedo, J. McLaughlin +7 more
2019ZooKeys18 citations Open access
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Annotated key to the trematode species infecting Batillaria attramentaria (Prosobranchia: Batillariidae) as first intermediate host.
R. Hechinger
2007Parasitology international18 citations Open access
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Metabolic theory of ecology successfully predicts distinct scaling of ectoparasite load on hosts
R. Hechinger, Kate L. Sheehan, Andrew V. Turner
2019Proceedings of the Royal Society B17 citations Open access
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Long-term population fluctuations of the exotic New Zealand mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum and its introduced aporocotylid trematode in northwestern France
C. Gérard, M. Hervé, R. Hechinger
2018Hydrobiologia16 citations
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Potential for emergence of foodborne trematodiases transmitted by an introduced snail (Melanoides tuberculata) in California and elsewhere in the United States.
D. C. G. Metz, Andrew V. Turner, Alexandria P. Nelson, R. Hechinger
2022Journal of Infectious Diseases15 citations Open access
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Two 'new' renicolid trematodes (Trematoda: Digenea: Renicolidae) from the California horn snail, Cerithidea californica (Haldeman, 1840) (Gastropoda: Potamididae).
R. Hechinger, O. Miura
2014Zootaxa15 citations Open access
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The introduced ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa) in Estero de Punta Banda, Mexico: interactions with the native cord grass, Spartina foliosa
M. Torchin, R. Hechinger, Todd C. Huspeni, K. L. Whitney +1 more
2005Biological Invasions15 citations
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Trematodes Associated with Mangrove Habitat in Puerto Rican Salt Marshes
K. Lafferty, R. Hechinger, JULIO LORDA, L. Soler
2005Journal of Parasitology15 citations
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Digenean metacercariae of fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Eastern Indo-Pacific
V. Vidal-Martínez, M. Aguirre-Macedo, J. McLaughlin, R. Hechinger +5 more
2012Journal of Helminthology14 citations
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Parasites help find universal ecological rules
R. Hechinger
2015Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America13 citations Open access
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Two New Species of Camallanus (Nematoda: Camallanidae) From Freshwater Turtles in Queensland, Australia
M. Rigby, R. Sharma, R. Hechinger, T. Platt +1 more
2008Journal of Parasitology13 citations Open access
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Let's restart formally naming 'larval' trematodes.
R. Hechinger
2023Trends in Parasitology12 citations Open access
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Guide to the trematodes (Platyhelminthes) that infect the California horn snail (Cerithideopsis californica: Potamididae: Gastropoda) as first intermediate host.
R. Hechinger
2019Zootaxa12 citations Open access
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Diversity increases biomass production for trematode parasites in snails
R. Hechinger, K. Lafferty, A. Kuris
2008Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences12 citations Open access
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