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9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Lena Wilfert. Research Interests. Lenas research focuses on the evolution of host-parasite interactions. She is particularly interested in the maintenance of genetic variation and recombination in natural populations, two

9 Apr 2013: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Fergal Waldron. Research Interests. It is of major biological interest to uncover the extent to which genetic variation influences host susceptibility and pathogen virulence and also the degree to which evolution can create

12 Apr 2011: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Punita Juneja. Research Interests. I am broadly interested in the genetic basis and evolution of adaptive traits. For my PhD, I studied short term evolution of the immune response of Drosophila melanogaster and addressed

8 Mar 2017: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Julien Martinez. Research Interests. I have a broad interest in evolutionary biology and specifically in host-symbiont coevolution. My current research focuses on the association between the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia

22 Feb 2016: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Ben Longdon. Research Interests. I have a broad interest in host-parasite ecology and evolution. My current interest focuses on how parasites switch between host species, what factors affect the ability of parasites to

12 Jun 2014: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. William J. Palmer. Research Interests. My current research seeks to understand the variation seen in the innate immune system of insects and assessing to what extent pathogens and the environment are responsible for shaping

12 Jan 2015: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Helen Leggett. Research Interests. I work on the evolutionary ecology of microbes by primarily studying evolution in real-time in controlled lab experiments (experimental evolution) with various strains of bacteria

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Jenny Bangham. Research Interests. In nature, there is a great deal of genetic variation for susceptibility to pathogens, and this has implications for medicine, agriculture, and evolution. Finding the genes responsible

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

17 Mar 2010: axy-ridis. Negative effects on humans have also been reported, includ-ing the aggregation of beetles inside people’s homes during thewinter months, occasional allergic reactions to bites (Yarbroughet al., 1999; ... axyridis. Chemical insec-ticides are

24 Aug 2022: The rabbit colonization of Australiawas accompanied by detailed historical literature on the eventsand people involved, providing a unique opportunity to combine.

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.

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

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

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