Understanding life: Using largescale biodiversity reference genomes

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The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

Maternally transmitted symbionts represent important components of arthropod biology, acting as both beneficial partners and as reproductive parasites. Their strict vertical transmission greatly reduc...

Michael Ashburner had an extraordinary career. From his early passion for natural history, through his education and subsequent career at the University of Cambridge, Michael’s intellectual energy and boundless curiosity generated a prodigious output ...

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Male-killing bacterial symbionts, prevalent in arthropods, skew population sex ratios by selectively killing male progeny, profoundly impacting ecolog…

Unlike obligate symbionts that are permanently associated with their hosts, facultative symbionts rarely show direct nutritional contributions, especially under nutrient-limited conditions. This study...

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Ruth Ella Moore ’26 BS, ’27 MA, ’33 PhD Born: May 19, 1903 Died: July 19, 1994 Alumna Ruth Ella Moore's work continues to inform the global struggle against tuberculosis Ruth Ella Moore ’26 BS, ’27 MA...

Male-killing bacterial symbionts, prevalent in arthropods, skew population sex ratios by selectively killing male progeny, profoundly impacting ecology and evolution of their hosts. Male-killing is a ...

PhD Project - BBSRC NWD: On the edges of symbiosis: how insect symbionts evolve in newly established interactions at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

Plasmids spread important traits in microbiomes but impose fitness costs on their hosts. This study of the ecological consequences of plasmid-bacterial compensatory evolution reveals benefits to bacte...

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PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA programme: Symbiosis in a thermally variable world at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Endosymbiosis—where a microbe lives and replicates within a host—is an important contributor to organismal function that has accelerated evolutionary …

Reliable transmission across host generations is a major challenge for bacteria that associate with insects, and independently established symbionts have addressed this challenge in different ways. Th...