Understanding the evolution of infectious disease at the invasion front LOUISE SOLVEIG NOERGAARD 10.26180/5e7c18f4f3fcf https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Understanding_the_evolution_of_infectious_disease_at_the_invasion_front/12032754 Understanding the occurrence and spread of infectious disease is a major challenge to epidemiologists and evolutionary biologists. As a result of range expansions, invasions and patch colonisation, pathogens encounter highly dynamic host populations, where infection strategies that optimise transmission and exploitation may not be the same across a landscape. My thesis provides some of the first empirical evidence of how disease may evolve when encountering conditions that mimic the core and front of an invading host population. I test for a range of ecological consequences of range expansion on pathogen fitness, and discuss how pathogens might evolve when travelling with their host. 2020-03-26 02:52:35 Evolution of disease Energy scope Range expansion Travelling wave Daphnia magna Pasteuria ramosa Paramecium caudatum Holospora Undulata Invasion front Transmission strategy Virulence-dispersal trade-off Evolutionary Biology