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20 Sep 2013: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Rodrigo Cogni. Research Interests. I have broad interests in evolutionary biology and ecology. To study fundamental questions in these fields I use insects. Insects are the most diverse group of animals on the planet, and

6 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Jon Day. Research Interests. My current work aims to more fully understand the genetic basis of the resistance of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to infection by its nemesis, the parasitic wasp Leptopilina boulardi.

19 Mar 2012: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Cristina Ariani. Research Interests. Mosquitoes are vector of a great number of human diseases, such as dengue fever, yellow fever and filariasis. The insect抯 immune system relies on humoral and cellular responses, which

6 Oct 2022: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Publications. 2021. Brosh, O, Fabian, DK, Cogni R, Tolosana, I, Day JP, Olivieri, F, Merckx, M, Akilli, N, Szkuta, P, Jiggins FM. 2022 A novel transposable element-mediated mechanism causes antiviral resistance in Drosophila

3 Nov 2006: prowazekii is very unusual. among bacterial pathogens in that it contains no‘‘alien genes’’ acquired from phylogenetically distantspecies (Karlin 2001).

22 Jul 2016: Tracking the inva-sion of the alien fruit pest Drosophila suzukii in Europe.

3 Jun 2017: to human health. Dengue virus, which infects millions of people every year, has greatly.

18 Feb 2008: Abstract. Anopheles. mosquitoes are the primary vectors for malaria in Africa, transmitting the diseaseto more than 100 million people annually. ... Plasmodium. species in sub-Saharan Africa, and as such areindirectly responsible for the deaths of more

6 Nov 2014: killed tens of millions of people. Other important human. pathogens have originated from other host species, including.

18 Nov 2015: people per year with an estimated economic cost of $8.6billion (US) (Hampson et al.

11 Nov 2015: Lymphatic filariasis is a highly debilitating disease, which affects120 million people in the world (Ichimori, 2010).

26 Feb 2014: Dengue is estimated to occur in. 50 million people each year, representing a 30-fold increase over.

21 Jul 2010: Jarrod Hadfield. and Shinichi Nakagawa provided invaluable statistical. advice. We are grateful to the people who helped.

8 May 2014: on statistics and phylogenetic reconstruction. We are very. grateful to the people who helped collecting viral isolates in.

3 Mar 2017: Dengue virus, which is responsiblefor the most common human arboviral disease infectingmillions of people every year, has greatly increased itsrange in tropical and subtropical regions [3, 4].Ae.

26 Sep 2011: DOC). Acknowledgments. We would like to thank the following people who kindly supplied flies; Mike.

10 Oct 2007: Molecular Ecology (2007). 16. , 1327–1339 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03234.x. 2007 The AuthorsJournal compilation 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Natural variation in the genetic architecture of a host–parasite

30 Oct 2009: Quantifying Adaptive Evolution in the DrosophilaImmune SystemDarren J. Obbard1, John J. Welch1, Kang-Wook Kim1,2, Francis M. Jiggins3. 1 Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Animal

30 Mar 2015: It is estimated to affect 120 million people worldwide, and symptoms include lymph-edema and swelling of the extremities [9].

25 Nov 2014: Funding: This work was supported by the following grants: NHGRI U54 HG003273 to R.A.G.; EU Marie Curie ITN #215781 ‘‘Evonet’’ to M.A.; a Wellcome TrustValue in People (VIP)