SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution)Aug 22 2024 Surprisingly, a large number of mutations occurred at the same site or in the same gene across multiple ...
Beyond the morbidity and mortality associated with the pandemic, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has paralyzed the global economy, causing suffering to education and psychological health. At ...
Throughout evolution, pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi, have developed sophisticated defense ...
(Nanowerk News) Richard Feynman famously stated, “Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms.” This week, Nature Nanotechnology ...
Q: How does understanding the evolution of virulence help us to manage infectious disease? A: For most of the last two centuries people have been using interventions to knock down infectious diseases ...
1. Parasite virulence varies greatly. Theory predicts that this arises from parasites op-Correspondence timising a trade-off between the mortality they inflict on current hosts, and their transmission ...
Marek's disease virus (MDV), a commercially important disease of poultry, has become substantially more virulent over the last 60 years. This evolution was presumably a consequence of changes in virus ...
In Pacific Northwest watersheds several species of Pacific salmonid fishes are hosts for the rhabdovirus infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV). In this multi-host ecosystem specialist ...
The coronavirus is on a serious self-improvement kick. Since infiltrating the human population, SARS-CoV-2 has splintered into hundreds of lineages, with some seeding new, fast-spreading variants. A ...