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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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