Britt Koskella

TL;DR: This Consensus Statement documents the central role and global importance of microorganisms in climate change biology and puts humanity on notice that the impact of climate change will depend heavily on responses of micro organisms, which are essential for achieving an environmentally sustainable future.

TL;DR: This review sums up the current understanding of bacteria–phage coevolution both in the laboratory and in nature, and discusses recent findings on both thecoevolutionary process itself and the impact of coev evolution on bacterial phenotype, diversity and interactions with other species (particularly their eukaryotic hosts).

TL;DR: Current research on the use of phages and their lytic proteins, specifically against multidrug-resistant bacterial infections, suggests phage therapy has the potential to be used as either an alternative or a supplement to antibiotic treatments.

TL;DR: Observations provide support for the hypothesis that the fundamental features of genome evolution are largely defined by the relative power of two nonadaptive forces: random genetic drift and mutation pressure.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of experimental work from 57 host-parasite systems across 54 local adaptation studies is presented to directly test theoretical predictions concerning the effect of each attribute on parasite adaptation and finds that studies of parasites with higher migration rates than their hosts report local adaptation significantly more often.