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Environment and Host Genetics Drive Infection Outcomes in a Butterfly Host, but Do Not Interact With Each Other

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.
This study examined how host genetics and larval food plant environment influence parasite infection outcomes in monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) infected with the protozoan Ophryocystis elektroscirrha. We tested for genotype × environment interactions on infection status, infection burden, lifespan, and wing size.
Ania A. Majewska, Grace Chlebove, Jacobus C. de Roode   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mitogenomics of Culex pipiens Form Pipiens From the Turkish Black Sea Region Reveals Structural Conservation and Phylogenetic Complexity

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.
Complete mitochondrial genomes of five Turkish Culex pipiens form pipiens isolates from the Black Sea region revealed highly conserved mitogenome architecture. Expanded comparisons across the broader Cx. pipiens complex showed that mitochondrial diversity was concentrated in selected loci and terminal regions associated with the A + T‐rich control ...
Ahsen Meliha Toroslu, Alparslan Yildirim, Gokmen Zafer Pekmezci, Osman Ibis, Samba Deguene Diop, Batuhan Askim Arslanhan, Saffet Teber, Alina Denis Kizgin, Simge Sahin, Filiz Gunay, Nathan Burkett‐Cadena, Lindsay Campbell, Abdullah Inci, Barry Wilmer Alto   +13 more
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Experimental uncoupling of hosts and endosymbionts

mBio
ABSTRACT Many organisms harbor heritable bacterial symbionts that offer context-specific benefits to their hosts. In some of these symbioses, symbionts live inside host cells as endosymbionts. Studying the biology of endosymbiosis is challenging because it is hard to independently cultivate hosts and ...
Honglin Feng, Alex C. C. Wilson
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Enemy release: loss of parasites in invasive freshwater bivalves Sinanodonta woodiana and Corbicula fluminea

Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 8, August 2026.
Invasive freshwater bivalves harm native species, ecosystems and biodiversity, and incur economic costs. The enemy release hypothesis posits that invasive species are released from enemies during the invasion process, giving them a competitive advantage in the new environment.
Binglin Deng, Nicoletta Riccardi, Pin Nie, Maria Urbańska, Timo J. Marjomäki, Wojciech Andrzejewski, Małgorzata Ożgo, Keiko Nakamura, Jouni Taskinen   +8 more
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Warming effects on marine microzooplankton and mixoplankton: Physiological responses, community reorganization, and implications for a warming ocean

Limnology and Oceanography, Volume 71, Issue 8, August 2026.
Abstract Microzooplankton and mixoplankton are key regulators of marine food webs, yet their responses to ocean warming and thermal extremes remain incompletely integrated across physiological, community, and ecosystem scales. This synthesis examines how temperature shapes the physiology, trophic strategies, and community dynamics of these protistan ...
Albert Calbet
wiley   +1 more source

Interactions Between Inbreeding, Fitness and the Bacterial Microbiome in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes

Evolutionary Applications, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Laboratory and field populations of insects can experience a decline in fitness and loss of genetic diversity due to inbreeding depression and genetic drift, respectively. Matings among related individuals and small population size may also influence insect host microbiomes with consequences for fitness.
Perran A. Ross, Nadieh de Jonge, Qiong Yang, Véronique Paris, Torsten N. Kristensen, Ary A. Hoffmann   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fungal, not insect: Revisiting a misidentified Bemisia tabaci protein interacting with a begomovirus coat protein

Insect Molecular Biology, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 361-363, August 2026.
A small heat‐shock protein (HSP16) previously reported as insect‐derived in Bemisia tabaci actually originates from a fungal species of the genus Wallemia. BLAST, genome survey and phylogenetic analyses support the fungal origin and clarify persistent misattribution in the literature.
Jesús Navas‐Castillo, Elvira Fiallo‐Olivé   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chain‐Length Regulation by WzzE Is Necessary for, but Genetically Separable From, Cyclic Enterobacterial Common Antigen Synthesis

Molecular Microbiology, Volume 126, Issue 2, Page 190-207, August 2026.
Here, we demonstrate that polysaccharide chain length regulation plays a distinct role in enabling formation of a cyclic molecule important for the bacterial cell surface. However, this function is necessary, but not sufficient for the cyclic molecule's biosynthesis.
Joseph F. Carr, Yohannes H. Rezenom, Jennifer S. Rudolf, Daniel J. Warzecha, Angela M. Mitchell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ticks without borders: microbiome of immature neotropical tick species parasitizing migratory songbirds along northern Gulf of Mexico

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
IntroductionThe long-distance, seasonal migrations of birds make them an effective ecological bridge for the movement of ticks. The introduction of exotic tick species to new geographical regions can cause the emergence of novel tick-borne pathogens ...
Shahid Karim, Theodore J. Zenzal, Lorenza Beati, Raima Sen, Abdulsalam Adegoke, Deepak Kumar, Latoyia P. Downs, Mario Keko, Ashly Nussbaum, Daniel J. Becker, Frank R. Moore   +10 more
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CNGCs in Marchantia paleacea uncouple arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis and rhizoid development

New Phytologist, Volume 251, Issue 4, Page 2027-2040, August 2026.
Rhizoid growth and AM fungal infection are uncoupled. Summary In Marchantia paleacea, MpaDMI1‐dependent nuclear Ca2+ oscillations are essential for arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal colonisation, indicating that endosymbiosis‐mediated nuclear Ca2+ signalling is a conserved feature of land plant–AM symbiosis.
Anson Ho Ching Lam, Aisling Cooke, Jake Richardson, Myriam Charpentier   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source