Predation, herbivory, and parasitism are specific types of antagonistic ... They play an important role in maintaining population sizes in microbial communities, which promotes the diversity ...

Parasites can shape community structure through ... Diadema urchins in the Caribbean experienced a massive die-off associated with microbial pathogens, eliminating the keystone roles of urchins ...

Parasitism occurs in almost all lineages of the tree of life, imposing the acquisition of a variety of hosts and microhabitats through organisms' independent evolution and diversification from ...

Beverley's laboratory has focused on the introduction of modern concepts of microbial pathogenesis and molecular genetics into the study of protozoan parasites of humans, primarily the trypanosomatid ...

Freshwater Biology (Special Issue on Emerging Diseases in Freshwater Ecosystems) 56: 754-766. Van den Wyngeaert, S., Gsell, A.S., Spaak, P. & Ibelings, B.W. (2012). Herbicides in the environment alter ...