Peer-reviewed Publications

2023

Winternitz J, Chakarov N, Rinaud T, Ottensmann M, Krüger O (2023) High functional allelic diversity and copy number in both MHC classes in the common buzzard. BMC Ecology and Evolution 23, 24, DOI:10.1186/s12862-023-02135-9.

2022

Winternitz JC, Abbate JL. 2022. The genes of attraction: mating behavior, immunogenetic variation, and parasite resistance. In: Animal Behavior and Parasitism (eds. Ezenwa VO, Altizer S, Hall RJ), Oxford University Press, DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192895561.003.0011.

2021

Winternitz J. 2021. Detangling the mechanisms and timing of MHC-dependent sexual selection using Soay sheep. Molecular Ecology, DOI:10.1111/mec.16255. PDF

Moran NP, Caspers BA, Chakarov N, Ernst UR, Fricke C, Kurtz J, Lilie ND, Lo LK, Müller C, R R, Takola E, Trimmer PC, van Benthem KJ, Winternitz J, Wittmann MJ (2021) Shifts between cooperation and antagonism driven by individual variation: a systematic synthesis review. Oikos, DOI:10.1111/oik.08201. EcoEvoRxiv. October 28. doi:10.32942/osf.io/sbrvu. PDF

Schubert N*, Nichols H, Winternitz J. 2021. How can the MHC mediate social odor via the microbiota community? A deep dive into mechanisms. Behavioral Ecology, 32: 359-373, DOI:10.1093/beheco/arab004. PDF *PhD student.

Winternitz J, Schubert N*, Nichols H. 2021. Let’s keep alternative hypotheses on the table: a response to comments on Schubert et al. Behavioral Ecology, 32: 378-379, DOI:10.1093/beheco/arab039. PDF *PhD student.

Krishna M, Winternitz J, Garkoti SC, Penuelas J. 2021. Functional leaf traits indicate phylogenetic signals in forests across an elevational gradient in the central Himalaya. Journal of Plant Research, DOI:10.1007/s10265-021-01289-1. PDF

2020

Havlíček J**, Winternitz J**, Roberts SC. 2020. Major histocompatibility complex-associated odour preferences and human mate choice: near and far horizons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375: 20190260, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0260. PDF **Authors contributed equally.

Solak HM*, Yanchukov A, Ayanoğlu İC, Çolak F, Matur F, Sözen M, Winternitz JC. 2020. Altitudinal effects on innate immune response of a subterranean rodent. Zoological Science, 37: 1-11, 11. DOI:10.2108/zs190067 . PDF, *Master’s student.

Radwan J, Babik W, Kaufman J, Lenz TL, Winternitz J. 2020. Advances in the evolutionary understanding of MHC polymorphism. Trends in Genetics, DOI:10.1016/j.tig.2020.01.008. PDF

2019

Näpflin K, O’Connor EA, Becks L, Bensch S, Ellis VA, Hafer-Hahmann N, Harding KC, Lindén SK, Olsen MT, Roved J, Sackton TB, Shultz AJ, Venkatakrishnan V, Videvall E, Westerdahl H, Winternitz JC, Edwards SV. 2019. Genomics of host-pathogen interactions: challenges and opportunities across ecological and spatiotemporal scales. PeerJ, DOI:10.7717/peerj.8013. PeerJ link

2017

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

2016

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).

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012 and earlier

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