%0 Thesis %A NOERGAARD, LOUISE SOLVEIG %D 2020 %T Understanding the evolution of infectious disease at the invasion front %U https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Understanding_the_evolution_of_infectious_disease_at_the_invasion_front/12032754 %R 10.26180/5e7c18f4f3fcf %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/22112235 %K Evolution of disease %K Energy scope %K Range expansion %K Travelling wave %K Daphnia magna %K Pasteuria ramosa %K Paramecium caudatum %K Holospora Undulata %K Invasion front %K Transmission strategy %K Virulence-dispersal trade-off %K Evolutionary Biology %X 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. %I Monash University