How do generalist parasites stay adaptable across many hosts? Root-knot nematodes show balancing selection maintaining host-specific variation in key pathogenicity genes. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... Image Wikimedia

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New research from #BiologyLetters: Nematode infections induce distinct chemical signatures and provoke aggression in ants doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... | #Behaviour #Ecology #HealthAndDisease #Epidemiology

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New preprint alert! Here, we showed that microbiota shapes infection outcome in Drosophila by modulating host metabolism and immunity. #infection #symbiosky #immunity #AcademicSky #insect #symbiosis #Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Great points. Wild how many factors impact response to infection! Seems like there is still plenty of room to tinker with all sorts of different interventions. Another in mind; exposure to conspecifics of different health status or age doi.org/10.1038/s41514-021-00073-8 Keep up the good work!

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Heterogeneity in Statistics: A Conceptual and Methodological Review doi.org/10.32942/X2B...

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