Host–parasite co-evolution and its genomic signature

D Ebert, PD Fields - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Studies in diverse biological systems have indicated that host–parasite co-evolution is
responsible for the extraordinary genetic diversity seen in some genomic regions, such as …

The spatial heterogeneity of the gut limits predation and fosters coexistence of bacteria and bacteriophages

M Lourenço, L Chaffringeon, Q Lamy-Besnier… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2020 - cell.com
The ecological dynamics underlying the coexistence between antagonistic populations of
bacteria and their viruses, bacteriophages (phages), in the mammalian gut microbiota …

Multistep diversification in spatiotemporal bacterial-phage coevolution

E Shaer Tamar, R Kishony - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The evolutionary arms race between phages and bacteria, where bacteria evolve resistance
to phages and phages retaliate with resistance-countering mutations, is a major driving force …

Measuring coevolutionary dynamics in species-rich communities

AR Hall, B Ashby, J Bascompte, KC King - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2020 - cell.com
Identifying different types of coevolutionary dynamics is important for understanding
biodiversity and infectious disease. Past work has often focused on pairs of interacting …

Phage therapy in the year 2035

JP Pirnay - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of multidrug resistant bacteria in both community-and hospital-acquired
infections is recognized as a major public health threat. Phage therapy is increasingly …

Coexistence of nestedness and modularity in host–pathogen infection networks

S Valverde, B Vidiella, R Montanez, A Fraile… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
The long-term coevolution of hosts and pathogens in their environment forms a complex
web of multi-scale interactions. Understanding how environmental heterogeneity affects the …

Rapid bacteria-phage coevolution drives the emergence of multiscale networks

JM Borin, JJ Lee, A Lucia-Sanz, KR Gerbino, JS Weitz… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Interactions between species catalyze the evolution of multiscale ecological networks,
including both nested and modular elements that regulate the function of diverse …

Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral ecological networks through time for pierid butterflies and their host plants

MP Braga, N Janz, S Nylin, F Ronquist… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The study of herbivorous insects underpins much of the theory that concerns the evolution of
species interactions. In particular, Pieridae butterflies and their host plants have served as a …

Habitat restoration and the recovery of metacommunities

KA Gawecka, J Bascompte - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem restoration is becoming a widely recognised solution to the biodiversity crisis.
However, there is still a gap between restoration science and practice. Specifically, we lack …

Conceptualizing microbe–plasmid communities as complex adaptive systems

S Pilosof - Trends in Microbiology, 2023 - cell.com
Plasmids shape microbial communities' diversity, structure, and function. Nevertheless, we
lack a mechanistic understanding of how community structure and dynamics emerge from …