Flowers at times host abundant and specialized communities of bacteria and fungi that
influence floral phenotypes and interactions with pollinators. Ecological processes drive …

Parasites are important determinants of ecological dynamics. Despite the widespread
perception that parasites (in the broad sense, including microbial pathogens) threaten …

This new edition of the universally acclaimed and widely-used textbook on fungal biology
has been completely re-written, drawing directly on the authors' research and teaching …

Nearly 25% of the estimated 250 000 spec cular plants in the world may become exti the
next 50 yr (Raven 1987), and 22% ofvas. species in the United States are currently vation …

Successful biological invaders often exhibit enhanced performance following introduction to
a new region. The traditional explanation for this phenomenon is that natural enemies (eg …

While the majority of flowering plant species are hermaphroditic, gender di morphism, or the
occurrence of two sexual morphs, has, nevertheless, evolved on repeated occasions …

Several floral microbes are known to be pathogenic to plants or floral visitors such as
pollinators. Despite the ecological and economic importance of pathogens deposited in …

Insect-fungus-plant tripartite interactions are reviewed centring on the interactions which
occur when insects and fungi are present on the same host plant and mainly excluding …

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have been generally thought of as a small subset of
infectious diseases, rather than as an important group of diseases that occur in numerous …

Conventional wisdom holds that parasites evolve more rapidly than their hosts and are
therefore locally adapted, that is, better at exploiting sympatric than allopatric hosts. We …