Plants, animals and humans, are colonized by microorganisms (microbiota) and transiently
exposed to countless others. The microbiota affects the development and function of …

Social welfare, better health care, and urbanization have greatly improved human health
and well‐being. On the other hand, Western societies suffer from the downsides of the …

The recent emergence of powerful genomic tools, such as high‐throughput genomics,
transcriptomics and metabolomics, combined with the study of gnotobiotic animals, have …

Ecological theory predicts that disease incidence increases with increasing density of host
networks, yet evolutionary theory suggests that host resistance increases accordingly. To …

The field of eco‐evolutionary dynamics is developing rapidly, with a growing number of well‐
designed experiments quantifying the impact of evolution on ecological processes and …

Living organisms are constantly exposed to wide ranges of environmental cues. They react
to these cues by undergoing a battery of phenotypic responses, such as by altering their …

Many antagonistic interactions between hosts and their parasites result in coevolution.
Although coevolution can drive diversity and specificity within species, it is not known …

The infection process of many diseases can be divided into series of steps, each one
required to successfully complete the parasite's life and transmission cycle. This approach …

In prebiotic evolution, molecular self-replicators are considered to develop into diverse,
complex living organisms. The appearance of parasitic replicators is believed inevitable in …

Changes in environmental nutrients play a crucial role in driving disease dynamics, but
global patterns in nutrient-driven changes in disease are difficult to predict. In this paper we …