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 ...

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 ...

But Dr. Keeling and his team had suspicions that the way microbial diversity is surveyed in environmental sequences might be biased against certain kinds of parasites. Luck also had a bit to do ...

Mass-blooming, monoculture crop fields don't seem to reduce the microbial diversity in a ... but they do amplify the spread of infectious parasites. Their findings indicate that commercial ...

Antimicrobial Resistance occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites change over time and no longer ... strengthening ...