It is hard to overstate the medical importance and burden of vector-transmitted infectious diseases. Whether the metric used is mortality (malaria, for example, kills 1 million to 2 million people ...

This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

Evolutionary ecology is an amalgamation of evolutionary biology and ecology, which considers evolutionary relationships and genetic changes in species or populations as well as their interactions with ...