Our meta-analysis revealed a general decline in microbiome phylogenetic diversity under both experimental warming and cooling, using data collected from a variety of host species across geographical...

Nature Reviews Microbiology - Symbiotic interactions can be neutral, harmful or have beneficial effects for host organisms. In this Review, Drew, Stevens and King discuss the evolutionary...

Abstract Symbionts can provide hosts with effective protection from natural enemies, but it can sometimes come at a cost. It is unclear to what extent the density of symbionts modulates the cost and...

Protective microbes are widespread across host species and likely play a key role in mediating host interactions with parasites. Rafaluk-Mohr et al. show that microbial protection against infection...

The ISME Journal - Host genotype and genetic diversity shape the evolution of a novel bacterial infection

Symbiosis - Symbiosis can benefit hosts in numerous ways, but less is known about whether interactions with hosts benefit symbionts—the smaller species in the relationship. To determine the...

Microbiota can protect their hosts from infection. The short timescales in which microbes can evolve presents the possibility that "protective microbes" can take-over from the immune system of...

Climate change is causing extreme heating events and intensifying infectious disease outbreaks. Animals harbour microbial communities, which are vital for their survival and fitness under stressful...

Animals live in symbiosis with numerous microbe species. While some can protect hosts from infection and benefit host health, components of the microbiota or changes to the microbial landscape have...

Our meta-analysis revealed a general decline in microbiome phylogenetic diversity under both experimental warming and cooling, using data collected from a variety of host species across geographical...

Organisms harbour myriad microbes which can be parasitic or protective against harm. The costs and benefits resulting from these symbiotic relationships can be context-dependent, but the evolutiona...

Organisms harbour myriad microbes which can be parasitic or protective against harm. The costs and benefits resulting from these symbiotic relationships can be context-dependent, but the evolutiona...

As a result of global change, hosts and parasites (including pathogens) are experiencing shifts in their thermal environment. Despite the importance of heat stress tolerance for host population...

Mammalian hosts often elevate their body temperatures through fevers to restrict the growth of bacterial infections. However, the extent to which fever temperatures affect the communities of phages...

Agricultural crops infected with vector-borne pathogens can suffer severe negative consequences, but the extent to which phytopathogens affect the fitness of their vector hosts remains unclear....

The genus Leucobacter consists of 25 species of Gram-positive, irregular, rod-shaped bacteria. Members of this genus have been isolated from both aquatic and terrestrial environments, including...

Resident microbes (microbiota) can shape host organismal function and adaptation in the face of environmental change. Invasion of new habitats exposes hosts to novel selection pressures, but little...

PhD Project - Evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions at University of Oxford, listed on FindAPhD.com

Virulence, the harm to hosts caused by parasite infection, can be selected for by several ecological factors acting synergistically or antagonistically. Here, we focus on the potential for interspe...

Welcome to the King Lab! We investigate the evolution and ecology of host-pathogen interactions in the lab and the wild.

Our findings highlight the capacity for wild nematode lineages to recover, in terms of their fitness, from transient pathogen exposure. In nature, nematodes are living in microbe-rich habitats where...

Hydrobiologia - Sex-based differences in animal microbiota are increasingly recognized as of biological importance. While most animal biomass is found in aquatic ecosystems and many water-dwelling...

It can create a “double risk of being isolated” from both academic colleagues and communities of origin, study finds

Global Parasitologist Coalition is a not-for-profit organization that focuses on the interaction and collaboration among different parasitologists and organizations worldwide for science communicat...

Defensive microbial symbionts are common in plants and animals, protecting their hosts against parasitic enemies. Rafaluk-Mohr et al. show that defensive microbes alter the trajectory of host–paras...

Many organisms live in environments where they are exposed to a diversity of pathogens. We used a panel of wild Caenorhabditis elegans nematode isolates to test for natural genetic variation in...

Host manipulation by parasites is a fascinating evolutionary outcome, but adaptive scenarios that often accompany even iconic examples in this popu...

Animals live in symbiosis with numerous microbe species. While some can protect hosts from infection and benefit host health, components of the microbiota or changes to the microbial landscape have...

Species interactions can shift along the parasitism-mutualism continuum. However, the consequences of these transitions for coevolutionary interactions remain unclear. We experimentally coevolved a...