Animals live in symbiosis with numerous microbe species. While some can protect hosts
from infection and benefit host health, components of the microbiota or changes to the …

Microorganismal diversity can be explained in large part by selection imposed from both the
abiotic and biotic environments, including—in the case of host-associated microbiomes …

Microbes are widely recognized to be vital to host health. This new consensus rests, in part,
on experiments showing how hosts malfunction when microbes are removed. More and …

Wolbachia is a maternally transmitted bacterium that lives inside arthropod cells. Historically,
it was viewed primarily as a parasite that manipulates host reproduction, but more recently it …

Following transfer into the primary arbovirus vector Aedes aegypti, several strains of the
intracellular bacterium Wolbachia have been shown to inhibit the transmission of dengue …

Understanding the coevolution of hosts and parasites is a long‐standing goal of
evolutionary biology. There is a well‐developed theoretical framework to describe the …

Immune system processes serve as the backbone of animal defences against pathogens
and thus have evolved under strong selection and coevolutionary dynamics. Most …

Wolbachia is a maternally transmitted bacterial symbiont that is estimated to infect
approximately half of arthropod species. In the laboratory it can increase the resistance of …

An essential introduction to microbiome science, a new cutting-edge discipline that is
transforming the life sciences This book provides an accessible and authoritative guide to …

Growing evidence demonstrates that invertebrates display adaptive-like immune abilities,
commonly known as “immune priming”. Immune priming is a process by which a host …