Owing to their evolutionary potential, plant pathogens are able to rapidly adapt to genetically
controlled plant resistance, often resulting in resistance breakdown and major epidemics in …

Trait-based approaches are increasingly used in ecology. Phytoplankton communities, with
a rich history as model systems in community ecology, are ideally suited for applying and …

Heterogeneities in contact networks have a major effect in determining whether a pathogen
can become epidemic or persist at endemic levels. Epidemic models that determine which …

There is no doubt that the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 is mutating
and thus has the potential to adapt during the current pandemic. Whether this evolution will …

Pandemia e agronegócio: doenças infecciosas, capitalismo e ciência, de Rob Wallace,
defende que os novos vírus que há alguns anos amedrontam o planeta com epidemias e …

The first collection to explore infectious disease, agriculture, economics, and the nature of
science together Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has …

It has been more than two decades since the formulation of the so‐called 'trade‐
off'hypothesis as an alternative to the then commonly accepted idea that parasites should …

Theoretical models pertaining to feedbacks between ecological and evolutionary processes
are prevalent in multiple biological fields. An integrative overview is currently lacking, due to …

The broad-headed bug Riptortus clavatus (Heteroptera: Alydidae) possesses a number of
crypts at a posterior midgut region, which house a dense population of a bacterial symbiont …

Although the spatial dimension of ecosystem dynamics is now widely recognized, the
specific mechanisms behind species patterning in space are still poorly understood and the …