Objectives Epigenetics can influence disease susceptibility and severity. While DNA
methylation of individual genes has been explored in autoimmunity, no unbiased systematic …

Intracellular pathogens need to develop sophisticated mechanisms to survive and thrive in
the hostile environment within host cells. Unicellular, eukaryotic parasites from the …

Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii are one of the main concerns of the livestock
sector as they cause important economic losses in ruminants due to the reproductive failure …

Cryptosporidiosis is caused by an obligate intracellular parasite that has eluded global
transcriptional or proteomic analysis of the intracellular developmental stages. The transcript …

Cryptosporidium parvum is a major cause of diarrhoea in humans and animals. There are
no vaccines and few drugs available to control C. parvum. In this study, we used RNA-Seq to …

Simple Summary Cryptosporidium parvum is one of the causal agents of cryptosporidiosis.
This water-borne disease is responsible for around one million human deaths every year …

Coccidiosis, caused by different species of Eimeria parasites, is an economically important
disease of poultry and livestock worldwide. Here we report previously unknown alterations …

Background Neospora caninum is an obligate intracellular parasite, and its ability to survive
inside host immune cells may be a key mechanism for the establishment of infection in …

Background Cryptosporidium baileyi is an economically important zoonotic pathogen that
causes serious respiratory symptoms in chickens for which no effective control measures are …

Male competition conforms to a cost–benefit model, because while aggression may increase
reproductive prospects, it can also increase the risk of injury. We hypothesize that an …