Peer-reviewed Publications
Näpflin K, Becks L, Bensch S, Ellis VA, Hafer-Hahmann N, Harding KC, Lindén SK, O'Connor EA, Olsen MT, Roved J, Sackton TB, Shultz AJ, Venkatakrishnan V, Videvall E, Westerdahl H, Winternitz JC, Edwards SV. 2019. Genomics of hosts-pathogen interactions: challenges and opportunities across ecological and spatiotemporal scales. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27734v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27734v1.
Winternitz J, Abbate J, Huchard E, Havlíček J and Garamszegi LZ 2017. Patterns of MHC-dependent mate selection in humans and non-human primates: a meta-analysis. Molecular Ecology, 26: 668-688. PDF.
Streicker D, Winternitz J, Satterfield D, Condori E, Recuenco E, Velasco-Villa A, Altizer S, and Valderrama W 2016. Host-pathogen evolutionary signatures reveal dynamics and future invasions of vampire bat rabies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI:10.1073/pnas.1606587113. PDF, Media Coverage (NPR, Sept. 13, 2016).
Winternitz JC and Abbate JL 2015. Examining the evidence for major histocompatibility complex-dependent mate selection in humans and nonhuman primates. Research and Reports in Biology 2015(6): 73-88. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RRB.S58514. PDF
Winternitz JC, Promerova M, Polakova R, Vinker M, Schnitzer J, Munclinger P, Babik W, Radwan J, Bryja J, and Albrecht T 2015. Effects of heterozygosity and MHC diversity on patterns of extra-pair paternity in the socially monogamous Scarlet rosefinch. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 69: 459. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-014-1858-9. PDF
Winternitz JC, Wares JP, Yabsley MJ and Altizer S 2014. Wild cyclic voles maintain high neutral and MHC diversity without strong evidence for parasite-mediated selection. Evolutionary Ecology, 28: 957–975. DOI: 10.1007/s10682-014-9709-8. PDF
Winternitz JC, Minchey SG, Garamszegi LZ, Huang S, Stephens PR and Altizer S 2013. Sexual selection explains more functional variation in mammalian immune genes than parasitism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 280(1769): 20131605. PDF
Winternitz JC and Wares JP 2013. Duplication and population dynamics shape historic patterns of selection and genetic variation at the MHC in rodents. Ecology and Evolution, 3(6):1552-1568. PDF
Winternitz JC, Yabsley MJ, Altizer SM 2012. Parasite infection and host dynamics in a naturally fluctuating rodent population. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 90:1149-1160. PDF
Blumstein DT, Richardson DT, Cooley L, Winternitz J, Daniel JC 2008. The structure, meaning, and function of yellow-bellied marmot pup screams. Animal Behavior, 76: 1055-1064. PDF
Blumstein DT, Cooley L, Winternitz J, Daniel JC 2008. Do yellow-bellied marmots respond to predator vocalizations? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62(3): 457-468. PDF
Other Publications
Han, BA, Rushmore, J, Fritzsche, A, Satterfield, D, Winternitz, J 2012. Preempting Pandemics. Science, 337: 647-648. Book Review. PDF