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 ...

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 ...

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

This study presents an important discovery regarding the diversity and evolution of gall-forming microbial effectors. Supported by convincing computational structural predictions and analyses, the ...

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 ...

If widespread resistance were to arise it would remove this critical treatment option from UK healthcare. Our study highlights the value of using lab-based pathogen evolution to understand clinical ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...

A target capture approach helps scientists monitor viral genome evolution and characterize novel pathogen strains for containment and epidemiological studies. Accurately detecting and identifying ...

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 ...