Diversity-disease relationships in natural microscopic nematode communities
Robbert van Himbeeck,
Jessica N. Sowa,
Hala Tamim El Jarkass
et al.
Abstract:High host biodiversity can reduce parasite prevalence, a phenomenon widely studied in macroscopic organisms and termed the ‘dilution effect of disease’. Data from host-parasite dynamics in microbial communities is lacking but is essential to assess the stability of microbial communities under global change. Here, we study diversity-disease effects in wild nematode communities by profiting from the molecular tools available in the well-studied model nematodeCaenorhabditis elegans. Nanopore sequencing was used t… Show more
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