Symbiosis between microbial associates and a host is a ubiquitous feature of life on earth,
modulating host phenotypes. In addition to endosymbionts, organisms harbour a collection …

Interest in arthropod-borne pathogens focuses primarily on how they cause disease in
humans. How they produce a transmissible infection in their arthropod host is just as critical …

Background The parasite composition of wild host individuals often impacts their behavior
and physiology, and the transmission dynamics of pathogenic species thereby determines …

Symbiotic microbial communities augment host phenotype, including defense against
pathogen carriage and infection. We sampled the microbial communities in 11 adult …

Background Ctenocephalides felis, the cat flea, is the most common ectoparasite of cats and
dogs worldwide. As a cause of flea allergy dermatitis and a vector for two genera of zoonotic …

Bartonella spp. comprise an ecologically successful group of microorganisms that infect
erythrocytes and have adapted to different hosts, which include a wide range of mammals …

The concept of coping style represents the way individual animals react to a stressful
situation, both behaviourally and neurophysiologically. Over the last decades coping style …

Wolbachia is one of the most abundant intracellular symbionts of arthropods and has
profound effects on host biology. Wolbachia transmission and host phenotypes often …

Hemotropic mycoplasmas are known to cause anemia in several mammalian species. The
present work aimed to investigate the occurrence of Mycoplasma spp. in wild mammals …

The way that some parasites and pathogens persist in the hostile environment of their host
for long periods remains to be resolved. Here, longitudinal field surveys were combined with …