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 ...

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

Pathogens are perhaps the most intriguing of all the forces shaping humans. They have had a tremendous impact on our evolution, and they, themselves, evolve over time. The great effect that ...

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 ...

Q: How does understanding the evolution of virulence help us to manage ... should evolve to be among the most nasty of human pathogens and that's, in fact, what we find. We find that the vector ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt ... of antimicrobial resistance and the speed with which new viral pathogens change and are able to evade vaccines. "Life is really, really ...

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 ...

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 ...