Rittik Deb and Ashwin Nair's paper on the gut bacterial communities of dragonflies is out! We sampled several species of dragonflies from different locations in India, and found that gut bacterial communities varied across host species, location, and season. For some of the dragonflies, we were also able to analyse gut contents, and found that... Continue Reading →
New paper: Explaining population level variation in immune priming
Here's the latest from Imroze and Arun. A couple years ago we had found surprising levels of variability in immune memory ("priming"), across 10 wild-collected flour beetle populations (Khan et al 2016, Ecology and Evolution). In our new follow-up paper, we figured out what may explain this variation, by systematically analysing change in various fitness... Continue Reading →
