The evolution of pathogens has received attention in a wide range of scientific fields, such as epidemiology, demography, and evolutionary ecology. Understanding pathogen evolution is particularly ...

Drawing on his research in understanding factors impacting infection tolerance, Brian P. Lazzaro discusses the importance of ...

Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and animals ...

Heterogeneity in host populations significantly influences pathogen evolution, yet most theories assume uniformity. This study uses a meta-population model to examine how local environmental ...

The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The ...

Vibrio cholerae is a facultative pathogen that has an environmental reservoir in aquatic ecosystems and a pathogenic phase in the human small intestine. It produces cholera toxin in the small ...

Advances in whole-genome sequencing have enabled within-host genome evolution to be studied with unprecedented detail. In this Review article, Didelot, Wilson and colleagues discuss how these ...

The results highlight the importance of taking into account host, pathogen and environmental factors when investigating infection outcomes in wild-caught fireflies. "We don't know very much about how ...

This host-pathogen interactome reveals several survival strategies that the pathogen employs, ... Under ideal circumstances a cell’s internal environment is too hostile for a pathogen to survive.

The findings, which provide a fresh perspective on host-pathogen interactions, were published on March 28 in Science Advances.. Circadian clocks are biological timekeeping systems that allow ...

The scientists looked at two different fungal pathogens: Alternaria brassicicola, which causes widespread damage in crops like canola, cabbage and broccoli, and Aspergillus fumigatus, a human ...