Marine multicellular organisms host a diverse collection of bacteria, archaea, microbial
eukaryotes, and viruses that form their microbiome. Such host-associated microbes can …

The gut microbiomes of birds and other animals are increasingly being studied in ecological
and evolutionary contexts. Numerous studies on birds and reptiles have made inferences …

Identifying the molecular basis of environmentally induced phenotypic variation presents
exciting opportunities for furthering our understanding of how ecological processes and the …

Haemosporidian parasites causing malaria-like diseases in birds are globally distributed and
have been associated with reduced host fitness and mortality in susceptible bird species. …

… The top significant miRNA genes in our study had extremely low q values (8.6e-79) (table
1), high log 2 fold changes (up to 8.0) (supplementary table S1, Supplementary Material online)…

The development of gut microbiota during ontogeny is emerging as an important process
influencing physiology, immunity and fitness in vertebrates. However, knowledge of how …

Evolutionary genomics has recently entered a new era in the study of host-pathogen interactions.
A variety of novel genomic techniques has transformed the identification, detection and …

… After a subsequent BLASTx search against the NCBI nonredundant protein database, we
retained 8,959 contigs that generated significant hits (e value: 1e-3) against apicomplexan …

… The most significant OTU in the cecum (q = 1.2e−53) and colon (q = 2.4e−56) was absent
in control individuals but abundant in diseased individuals (Tables S2–S3). This OTU, which …

Investigations of host preferences in haematophagous insects, including Culicoides biting
midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), are critical in order to assess transmission routes of vector…