The evolution of pathogens has received attention in a wide range of scientific fields, such as epidemiology, demography, and evolutionary ecology. Understanding pathogen evolution is particularly ...

Across the Bay Area, a citizen science project has found four instances of a more aggressive and heat-resilient form of a pathogen killing California oak trees. The project was started by Matteo ...

The European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) was once widespread in the North Sea. However, overfishing, habitat destruction and ...

The “sudden oak death” pathogen, which behaves like a fungus and is always fatal to red oaks, was recently discovered on a rhododendron plant at a Hennepin County nursery. The plant has been destroyed ...