...Plants recognize and protect themselves against harmful pathogens but acquire mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Plants attract or filter potential microbial colonists. They recognize highly conserved cues of microbial groups and then either attempt to destroy or facilitate those...

... the relationship between pathogen evolution and evolution of the biosphere as a whole is one way to help in that effort. Kellogg Vernon adaptive radiations Darwin Charles evolutionary opportunity natural selection orthogenesis Osborn Henry Fairfield preadaptation Simpson George Gaylord ecological fitting...

... biology Darwinism natural selection nature of the organism Stigall Alycia genetic diversity and variation bacterial pathogens and diseases coevolution ecological fitting antibiotic resistance biodiversity eradication evolutionary opportunity host range species extinctions and emerging disease...

... the potential for emerging infectious disease outbreaks directly to climate change. Highly specialized pathogens evolve in localized settings in association with one or a few hosts. Climate change and ecological disruption alters geographic distributions, bringing those pathogens into contact with susceptible...

...For the past century, humans have ignored the many warning signs of emerging climate change and diseases. To understand the nature of modern science's view of pathogens, one must first know the history of what science thought about pathogens and their hosts. emerging infectious disease EID...

...Technological humanity now faces an existential crisis in global climate change and emerging infectious disease. The very evolutionary specializations that make pathogens a threat for widespread emergence also provide insights into how we can find them before they find us. As global climate begins...

... capacity emerging infectious disease EID genetic diversity and variation phenotypic variation accidental hosts bacterial pathogens and diseases food security and EID spillover viral pathogens and diseases geographic locations R0 for pathogens pathogenicity virulence Anderson Roy M Darwin...

... law of geminate species taxon pulse hypothesis geographic distribution and emerging disease Lieberman Bruce Liebherr James evolutionary opportunity geographic locations helminth pathogens host range sea level ice dynamics and climate change climate change emerging infectious disease EID...

... counted more than seventy accidents relating to work with dangerous pathogens from 2002 into 2007. The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation has identified more than a dozen bioactivities that are dangerous; some activities are justified and some are not. Only scientists expert in the molecular...

...This chapter describes research on specific pathogens that illustrates the multiple roles of infectious diseases in the Serengeti, including (a) impacts on individual hosts (canine distemper virus); (b) threats to endangered populations (rabies) and to the ecosystem (rinderpest); (c) impacts...