The adaptive evolution of virulence: a review of theoretical predictions and empirical tests

CE Cressler, DV McLeod, C Rozins… - Parasitology, 2016 - cambridge.org
Why is it that some parasites cause high levels of host damage (ie virulence) whereas others
are relatively benign? There are now numerous reviews of virulence evolution in the …

Evolution of bacterial virulence

M Diard, WD Hardt - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial virulence is highly dynamic and context-dependent. For this reason, it is
challenging to predict how molecular changes affect the growth of a pathogen in a host and …

Vibrio–bivalve interactions in health and disease

D Destoumieux‐Garzón, L Canesi… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the marine environment, bivalve mollusks constitute habitats for bacteria of the
Vibrionaceae family. Vibrios belong to the microbiota of healthy oysters and mussels, which …

Playing on a pathogen's weakness: using evolution to guide sustainable plant disease control strategies

J Zhan, PH Thrall, J Papaïx, L Xie… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Wild plants and their associated pathogens are involved in ongoing interactions over
millennia that have been modified by coevolutionary processes to limit the spatial extent and …

Interactions between soil protists and pollutants: An unsolved puzzle

C Wu, Y Chao, L Shu, R Qiu - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil protists are essential but often overlooked in soils, although they play crucial functional
roles in the terrestrial ecosystem. While soil protists have drawn increased attention to their …

Properties and applications of undecylprodigiosin and other bacterial prodigiosins

N Stankovic, L Senerovic, T Ilic-Tomic… - Applied microbiology …, 2014 - Springer
The growing demand to fulfill the needs of present-day medicine in terms of novel effective
molecules has lead to reexamining some of the old and known bacterial secondary …

Protozoan predation as a driver of diversity and virulence in bacterial biofilms

MM Hoque, G Espinoza-Vergara… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Protozoa are eukaryotic organisms that play a crucial role in nutrient cycling and maintaining
balance in the food web. Predation, symbiosis and parasitism are three types of interactions …

The roles of environmental variation and parasite survival in virulence–transmission relationships

WC Turner, PL Kamath… - Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Disease outbreaks are a consequence of interactions among the three components of a host–
parasite system: the infectious agent, the host and the environment. While virulence and …

Unraveling the emergence and population diversity of Listeria monocytogenes in a newly built meat facility through whole genome sequencing

A Alvarez-Molina, JF Cobo-Díaz, M López… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The food processing environments of a newly opened meat processing facility were
sampled in ten visits carried out during its first 1.5 years of activity and analyzed for the …

Fluctuating temperature leads to evolution of thermal generalism and preadaptation to novel environments

T Ketola, L Mikonranta, J Zhang, K Saarinen… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Environmental fluctuations can select for generalism, which is also hypothesized to increase
organisms' ability to invade novel environments. Here, we show that across a range of …