Anthropogenic environmental change and the emergence of infectious diseases in wildlife.

By using the criteria that define emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) of humans, we can identify a similar group of EIDs in wildlife. In the current review...

P Daszak，AA Cunningham，AD Hyatt - 《Acta Tropica》

ISOLATION BY RESISTANCE

Despite growing interest in the effects of landscape heterogeneity on genetic structuring, few tools are available to incorporate data on landscape composi...

BH Mcrae - 《Evolution》

The hitchhiking effect on the site frequency spectrum of DNA polymorphisms.

The level of DNA sequence variation is reduced in regions of the Drosophila melanogaster genome where the rate of crossing over per physical distance is al...

JM Braverman，RR Hudson，NL Kaplan，... - 《Genetics》

Statistical properties of population differentiation estimators under stepwise mutation in a finite island model

Microsatellite loci mutate at an extremely high rate and are generally thought to evolve through a stepwise mutation model. Several differentiation statist...

F Balloux，J Goudet - 《Molecular Ecology》

Origin and Evolution of Viruses

Are infectious diseases caused by novel entities, viruses that have rapidly evolved into more pathogenic forms, or viruses that have crossed species divide...

JJ Holland，E Domingo - 《Virus Genes》

Rabies re-examined

Rabies is an acute, progressive, incurable viral encephalitis. The causative agents are neurotropic RNA viruses in the family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssavir...

CE Rupprecht，CA Hanlon，T Hemachudha - 《Lancet Infectious Diseases》

Disease, habitat fragmentation and conservation.

Habitat loss and the resultant fragmentation of remaining habitat is the primary cause of loss of biological diversity. How do these processes affect the d...

H Mccallum，A Dobson - 《Proceedings Biological Sciences》

Frontal and stealth attack strategies in microbial pathogenesis.

Interactions between microbes and human hosts can range from a benign, even symbiotic collaboration to a competition that may turn fatal--resulting in deat...

DS Merrell，S Falkow - 《Nature》

Origin and Evolution of Viruses

本书内容分为两大部分, 第一部分主要介绍了病毒起源和进化的基本概念、基本理论、主要的研究方法和驱动病毒进化的病毒因子和宿主细胞因子 ; 第二部分选择有代表性的病...

J. Holland，E. Domingo - 科学出版社

Modulation of the immune response in the nervous system by rabies virus.

Rabies virus (RABV) is a pathogen well-adapted to the nervous system, where it infects neurons. RABV is transmitted by the bite of an infected animal. It e...

M Lafon - 《Curr Top Microbiol Immunol》