As long as humans have been around, there have been pathogens to make us sick. Some have achieved infamy in human history—the bubonic plague, for example, or smallpox—and with modern ...

Pathogen evolution is a central theme in disease ecology, as genetic diversity and fitness changes in pathogens have a significant impact on disease transmission, immune evasion, and public health ...

How do climate, evolution, and free-living hosts interact to determine the dynamics of pathogens and the burden of disease? Aa Aa Aa Infectious diseases have long been known to cause devastating ...

New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...

Point mutations are often thought of as the raw material of evolution; these small changes ... into the evolutionary pressures on bacterial pathogens.

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...

1 “The biogeography of this pathogen specifically is really important because there keep being new outbreaks which have led to epidemic situations all over the world,” said study coauthor Alexandra ...

Plants produce special molecules that act like natural pesticides to help defend themselves against pests. Unfortunately, ...

The research team has found that a koala population in Australia has evolved a distinctive genomic immunity to a retrovirus.

We develop mathematical tools connecting sequence data to ecology and evolution, with a considerable focus on infectious diseases. We have a long-standing interest on the dynamics of diverse ...