Ryan Hechinger

Title(s)Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Department
SchoolVc-marine Sciences
Address9500 Gilman Drive #
La Jolla CA 92093
vCardDownload vCard

    Collapse Research 
    Collapse Research Activities and Funding
    Evaluating the possible transmission in California of food-borne zoonotic trematode parasites carried by the introduced snail Melanoides tuberculata
    NIH R03AI156569Dec 1, 2020 - Nov 30, 2022
    Role: Principal Investigator

    Collapse Bibliographic 
    Collapse Publications
    Publications listed below are automatically derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and other sources, which might result in incorrect or missing publications. Researchers can login to make corrections and additions, or contact us for help. to make corrections and additions.
    Newest   |   Oldest   |   Most Cited   |   Most Discussed   |   Timeline   |   Field Summary   |   Plain Text
    Altmetrics Details PMC Citations indicate the number of times the publication was cited by articles in PubMed Central, and the Altmetric score represents citations in news articles and social media. (Note that publications are often cited in additional ways that are not shown here.) Fields are based on how the National Library of Medicine (NLM) classifies the publication's journal and might not represent the specific topic of the publication. Translation tags are based on the publication type and the MeSH terms NLM assigns to the publication. Some publications (especially newer ones and publications not in PubMed) might not yet be assigned Field or Translation tags.) Click a Field or Translation tag to filter the publications.
    1. The physical soldier caste of an invasive, human-infecting flatworm is morphologically extreme and obligately sterile. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Jul 30; 121(31):e2400953121. Metz DCG, Hechinger RF. PMID: 39042696; PMCID: PMC11295071.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    2. Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites. Curr Biol. 2023 12 04; 33(23):R1238-R1240. Hechinger RF, Metz DCG. PMID: 38052175.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    3. More on formally naming trematode parthenitae and cercariae. Trends Parasitol. 2023 Nov; 39(11):891-892. Hechinger RF. PMID: 37658005.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions:    Fields:    
    4. EXPERIMENTAL INFECTIONS WITH EUHAPLORCHIS CALIFORNIENSIS AND A SMALL CYATHOCOTYLID INCREASE CONSPICUOUS BEHAVIORS IN CALIFORNIA KILLIFISH (FUNDULUS PARVIPINNIS). J Parasitol. 2023 07 01; 109(4):362-376. Weinersmith KL, Nadler LE, Bengston E, Turner AV, Birda A, Cobian K, Dusto JA, Helland-Riise SH, Terhall JM, Øverli Ø, Hechinger RF. PMID: 37527277; PMCID: PMC10658870.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    5. Let's restart formally naming 'larval' trematodes. Trends Parasitol. 2023 08; 39(8):638-649. Hechinger RF. PMID: 37385923.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    6. Potential for Emergence of Foodborne Trematodiases Transmitted by an Introduced Snail (Melanoides tuberculata) in California and Elsewhere in the United States. J Infect Dis. 2023 01 11; 227(2):183-192. Metz DCG, Turner AV, Nelson AP, Hechinger RF. PMID: 36214840; PMCID: PMC10202430.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    7. Lynnia grapsolytica n. gen, n. sp. (Ciliophora: Apostomatida: Colliniidae), a Deadly Blood Parasite of Crabs with a Novel Pseudocytopharynx. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2021 05; 68(3):e12847. Metz DCG, Hechinger RF. PMID: 33650262.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    8. Broadening the ecology of fear: non-lethal effects arise from diverse responses to predation and parasitism. Proc Biol Sci. 2021 02 24; 288(1945):20202966. Daversa DR, Hechinger RF, Madin E, Fenton A, Dell AI, Ritchie EG, Rohr J, Rudolf VHW, Lafferty KD. PMID: 33622122; PMCID: PMC7935051.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 17     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    9. Brain-encysting trematodes (Euhaplorchis californiensis) decrease raphe serotonergic activity in California killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis). Biol Open. 2020 07 08; 9(7). Helland-Riise SH, Vindas MA, Johansen IB, Nadler LE, Weinersmith KL, Hechinger RF, Øverli Ø. PMID: 32439741; PMCID: PMC7358127.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 2     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    10. Social trematode parasites increase standing army size in areas of greater invasion threat. Biol Lett. 2020 02; 16(2):20190765. Resetarits EJ, Torchin ME, Hechinger RF. PMID: 32097594; PMCID: PMC7058954.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 3     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    11. Regional Distribution of a Brain-Encysting Parasite Provides Insight on Parasite-Induced Host Behavioral Manipulation. J Parasitol. 2020 02; 106(1):188-197. Helland-Riise SH, Nadler LE, Vindas MA, Bengston E, Turner AV, Johansen IB, Weinersmith KL, Hechinger RF, Øverli Ø. PMID: 32097105.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    12. Metabolic theory of ecology successfully predicts distinct scaling of ectoparasite load on hosts. Proc Biol Sci. 2019 12 18; 286(1917):20191777. Hechinger RF, Sheehan KL, Turner AV. PMID: 31847763; PMCID: PMC6939921.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    13. Guide to the trematodes (Platyhelminthes) that infect the California horn snail (Cerithideopsis californica: Potamididae: Gastropoda) as first intermediate host. Zootaxa. 2019 Dec 17; 4711(3):zootaxa.4711.3.3. Hechinger RF. PMID: 32230486.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 5     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    14. Hermaphrodites and parasitism: size-specific female reproduction drives infection by an ephemeral parasitic castrator. Sci Rep. 2019 12 13; 9(1):19121. Fong CR, Kuris AM, Hechinger RF. PMID: 31836736; PMCID: PMC6911060.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    15. Parasitic nematodes of marine fishes from Palmyra Atoll, East Indo-Pacific, including a new species of Spinitectus (Nematoda, Cystidicolidae). Zookeys. 2019; 892:1-26. González-Solís D, Soler-Jiménez LC, Aguirre-Macedo ML, McLaughlin JP, Shaw JC, James AK, Hechinger RF, Kuris AM, Lafferty KD, Vidal-Martínez VM. PMID: 31824201; PMCID: PMC6892965.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 6  
    16. Parasitic copepods (Crustacea, Hexanauplia) on fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Central Pacific. Zookeys. 2019; 833:85-106. Soler-Jiménez LC, Morales-Serna FN, Aguirre-Macedo ML, McLaughlin JP, Jaramillo AG, Shaw JC, James AK, Hechinger RF, Kuris AM, Lafferty KD, Vidal-Martínez VM. PMID: 31048953; PMCID: PMC6477860.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 6  
    17. Parasite and host biomass and reproductive output in barnacle populations in the rocky intertidal zone. Parasitology. 2019 03; 146(3):407-412. Fong CR, Kuris AM, Hechinger RF. PMID: 30301482.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    18. Sea-level rise, habitat loss, and potential extirpation of a salt marsh specialist bird in urbanized landscapes. Ecol Evol. 2018 Aug; 8(16):8115-8125. Rosencranz JA, Thorne KM, Buffington KJ, Takekawa JY, Hechinger RF, Stewart TE, Ambrose RF, MacDonald GM, Holmgren MA, Crooks JA, Patton RT, Lafferty KD. PMID: 30250688; PMCID: PMC6144993.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4  
    19. Euhaplorchis californiensis Cercariae Exhibit Positive Phototaxis and Negative Geotaxis. J Parasitol. 2018 06; 104(3):329-333. Weinersmith KL, Brown CE, Clingen KB, Jacobsen MC, Topper LB, Hechinger RF. PMID: 29381420.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    20. Monogenea of fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll in the Central Pacific. Zookeys. 2017; (713):1-23. Vidal-Martínez VM, Soler-Jiménez LC, Aguirre-Macedo ML, Mclaughlin J, Jaramillo AG, Shaw JC, James A, Hechinger RF, Kuris AM, Lafferty KD. PMID: 29134039; PMCID: PMC5674209.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4  
    21. Host density increases parasite recruitment but decreases host risk in a snail-trematode system. Ecology. 2017 Aug; 98(8):2029-2038. Buck JC, Hechinger RF, Wood AC, Stewart TE, Kuris AM, Lafferty KD. PMID: 28518406.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 8     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    22. No One Saw This Coming: Endoparasitic Mites Behind the Eyes of a Double-Crested Cormorant. J Parasitol. 2017 06; 103(3):295-297. Sheehan KL, Spicer GS, OConnor BM, Hechinger RF. PMID: 28165862.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    23. Sea-level driven glacial-age refugia and post-glacial mixing on subtropical coasts, a palaeohabitat and genetic study. Proc Biol Sci. 2016 Nov 30; 283(1843). Dolby GA, Hechinger R, Ellingson RA, Findley LT, Lorda J, Jacobs DK. PMID: 27903870; PMCID: PMC5136581.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 8     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    24. Trematodes with a reproductive division of labour: heterophyids also have a soldier caste and early infections reveal how colonies become structured. Int J Parasitol. 2017 01; 47(1):41-50. Garcia-Vedrenne AE, Quintana AC, DeRogatis AM, Dover CM, Lopez M, Kuris AM, Hechinger RF. PMID: 27914977.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 7     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    25. The role of competition - colonization tradeoffs and spatial heterogeneity in promoting trematode coexistence. Ecology. 2016 Jun; 97(6):1484-1496. Mordecai EA, Jaramillo AG, Ashford JE, Hechinger RF, Lafferty KD. PMID: 27859218.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    26. The role of competition--colonization tradeoffs and spatial heterogeneity in promoting trematode coexistence. Ecology. 2016 Jun; 97(6):1484-96. Mordecai EA, Jaramillo AG, Ashford JE, Hechinger RF, Lafferty KD. PMID: 27459779.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    27. Social Organization in Parasitic Flatworms--Four Additional Echinostomoid Trematodes Have a Soldier Caste and One Does Not. J Parasitol. 2016 Feb; 102(1):11-20. Garcia-Vedrenne AE, Quintana AC, DeRogatis AM, Martyn K, Kuris AM, Hechinger RF. PMID: 26560890.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 7     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    28. Parasite species richness and intensity of interspecific interactions increase with latitude in two wide-ranging hosts. Ecology. 2015 Nov; 96(11):3033-42. Torchin ME, Miura O, Hechinger RF. PMID: 27070022.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 6     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    29. Parasites help find universal ecological rules. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Feb 10; 112(6):1656-7. Hechinger RF. PMID: 25630508; PMCID: PMC4330728.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    30. A lack of crowding? Body size does not decrease with density for two behavior-manipulating parasites. Integr Comp Biol. 2014 Jul; 54(2):184-92. Weinersmith KL, Warinner CB, Tan V, Harris DJ, Mora AB, Kuris AM, Lafferty KD, Hechinger RF. PMID: 24935987.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 3     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    31. Two 'new' renicolid trematodes (Trematoda: Digenea: Renicolidae) from the California horn snail, Cerithidea californica (Haldeman, 1840) (Gastropoda: Potamididae). Zootaxa. 2014 Apr 01; 3784:559-74. Hechinger RF, Miura O. PMID: 24872073.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 5     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    32. A metabolic and body-size scaling framework for parasite within-host abundance, biomass, and energy flux. Am Nat. 2013 Aug; 182(2):234-48. Hechinger RF. PMID: 23852357.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 21     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    33. Parasites affect food web structure primarily through increased diversity and complexity. PLoS Biol. 2013; 11(6):e1001579. Dunne JA, Lafferty KD, Dobson AP, Hechinger RF, Kuris AM, Martinez ND, McLaughlin JP, Mouritsen KN, Poulin R, Reise K, Stouffer DB, Thieltges DW, Williams RJ, Zander CD. PMID: 23776404; PMCID: PMC3679000.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 68     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    34. Maritrema orensense and Maritrema bonaerense (Digenea: Microphallidae): descriptions, life cycles, and comparative morphometric analyses. J Parasitol. 2013 Apr; 99(2):218-28. Alda P, Bonel N, Hechinger RF, Martorelli SR. PMID: 22988841.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    35. Digenean metacercariae of fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll, Eastern Indo-Pacific. J Helminthol. 2012 Dec; 86(4):493-509. Vidal-Martínez VM, Aguirre-Macedo ML, McLaughlin JP, Hechinger RF, Jaramillo AG, Shaw JC, James AK, Kuris AM, Lafferty KD. PMID: 22217399.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 5     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    36. Flying shells: historical dispersal of marine snails across Central America. Proc Biol Sci. 2012 Mar 22; 279(1731):1061-7. Miura O, Torchin ME, Bermingham E, Jacobs DK, Hechinger RF. PMID: 21920976; PMCID: PMC3267146.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 10     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    37. A common scaling rule for abundance, energetics, and production of parasitic and free-living species. Science. 2011 Jul 22; 333(6041):445-8. Hechinger RF, Lafferty KD, Dobson AP, Brown JH, Kuris AM. PMID: 21778398; PMCID: PMC3236646.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 29     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    38. Social organization in a flatworm: trematode parasites form soldier and reproductive castes. Proc Biol Sci. 2011 Mar 07; 278(1706):656-65. Hechinger RF, Wood AC, Kuris AM. PMID: 20851830; PMCID: PMC3030857.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 25     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    39. Ecology of the brain trematode Euhaplorchis californiensis and its host, the California killifish ( Fundulus parvipinnis ). J Parasitol. 2010 Jun; 96(3):482-90. Shaw JC, Hechinger RF, Lafferty KD, Kuris AM. PMID: 20557191.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 3     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    40. Mortality affects adaptive allocation to growth and reproduction: field evidence from a guild of body snatchers. BMC Evol Biol. 2010 May 07; 10:136. Hechinger RF. PMID: 20459643; PMCID: PMC2887408.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 8     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    41. Diversity increases biomass production for trematode parasites in snails. Proc Biol Sci. 2008 Dec 07; 275(1652):2707-14. Hechinger RF, Lafferty KD, Kuris AM. PMID: 18700204; PMCID: PMC2605822.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    42. Two new species of Camallanus (Nematoda: Camallanidae) from freshwater turtles in Queensland, Australia. J Parasitol. 2008 Dec; 94(6):1364-70. Rigby MC, Sharma RS, Hechinger RF, Platt TR, Weaver JC. PMID: 19127966.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 2     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    43. Colloquium paper: homage to Linnaeus: how many parasites? How many hosts? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Aug 12; 105 Suppl 1:11482-9. Dobson A, Lafferty KD, Kuris AM, Hechinger RF, Jetz W. PMID: 18695218; PMCID: PMC2556407.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 173     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    44. Trematodes indicate animal biodiversity in the Chilean intertidal and Lake Tanganyika. J Parasitol. 2008 Aug; 94(4):966-8. Hechinger RF, Lafferty KD, Kuris AM. PMID: 18576749.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 8     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    45. Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries. Nature. 2008 Jul 24; 454(7203):515-8. Kuris AM, Hechinger RF, Shaw JC, Whitney KL, Aguirre-Macedo L, Boch CA, Dobson AP, Dunham EJ, Fredensborg BL, Huspeni TC, Lorda J, Mababa L, Mancini FT, Mora AB, Pickering M, Talhouk NL, Torchin ME, Lafferty KD. PMID: 18650923.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 133     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    46. Endangered light-footed clapper rail affects parasite community structure in coastal wetlands. Ecol Appl. 2007 Sep; 17(6):1694-702. Whitney KL, Hechinger RF, Kuris AM, Lafferty KD. PMID: 17913133.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    47. Annotated key to the trematode species infecting Batillaria attramentaria (Prosobranchia: Batillariidae) as first intermediate host. Parasitol Int. 2007 Dec; 56(4):287-96. Hechinger RF. PMID: 17644398.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 2     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    48. Introduced cryptic species of parasites exhibit different invasion pathways. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Dec 26; 103(52):19818-23. Miura O, Torchin ME, Kuris AM, Hechinger RF, Chiba S. PMID: 17179044; PMCID: PMC1750888.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 21     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    49. Can parasites be indicators of free-living diversity? Relationships between species richness and the abundance of larval trematodes and of local benthos and fishes. Oecologia. 2007 Feb; 151(1):82-92. Hechinger RF, Lafferty KD, Huspeni TC, Brooks AJ, Kuris AM. PMID: 17024376.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 28     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    50. Parasites alter host phenotype and may create a new ecological niche for snail hosts. Proc Biol Sci. 2006 Jun 07; 273(1592):1323-8. Miura O, Kuris AM, Torchin ME, Hechinger RF, Chiba S. PMID: 16777719; PMCID: PMC1560305.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 24     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    51. Trematodes associated with mangrove habitat in Puerto Rican salt marshes. J Parasitol. 2005 Jun; 91(3):697-9. Lafferty KD, Hechinger RF, Lorda J, Soler L. PMID: 16108572.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 3     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    52. Host diversity begets parasite diversity: bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hosts. Proc Biol Sci. 2005 May 22; 272(1567):1059-66. Hechinger RF, Lafferty KD. PMID: 16024365; PMCID: PMC1599879.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 105     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    53. Molecular-genetic analyses reveal cryptic species of trematodes in the intertidal gastropod, Batillaria cumingi (Crosse). Int J Parasitol. 2005 Jun; 35(7):793-801. Miura O, Kuris AM, Torchin ME, Hechinger RF, Dunham EJ, Chiba S. PMID: 15925598.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 56     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    54. Why should parasite resistance be costly? Trends Parasitol. 2002 Mar; 18(3):116-20. Rigby MC, Hechinger RF, Stevens L. PMID: 11854088.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 29     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsPHPublic Health
    Ryan's Networks
    Concepts (134)
    Derived automatically from this person's publications.
    _
    Co-Authors (2)
    People in Profiles who have published with this person.
    _
    Similar People (60)
    People who share similar concepts with this person.
    _
    Same Department
    Search Department
    _