… with deep internal branches and short terminal branches, which could easily be mistaken
as evidence for population structure and admixture (F. Jiggins, unpublished results). …

RNA interference (RNAi) is an important defence against viruses and transposable elements
(TEs). RNAi not only protects against viruses by degrading viral RNA, but hosts and viruses …

Bacteria that are vertically transmitted through female hosts and kill male hosts that inherit
them were first recorded in insects during the 1950s. Recent studies have shown these" male-…

… encedon are given in Jiggins et al. (1998). Previous studies suggested the production of …
between 5 and 25% of female individuals, although note Jiggins et al (1998); Majerus et al 1998…

Background Rickettsia are intracellular symbionts of eukaryotes that are best known for
infecting and causing serious diseases in humans and other mammals. All known vertebrate-…

… The weighted Unifrac distance that we used also accounts for the abundance of each
bacterial taxa and is closely analogous to the fixation index F ST . In this analysis, the distances …

RNA interference (RNAi) is perhaps best known as a laboratory tool. However, RNAi-related
pathways represent an antiviral component of innate immunity in both plants and animals [1]…

Emerging viral diseases are often the product of a host shift, where a pathogen jumps from its
original host into a novel species. Phylogenetic studies show that host shifts are a frequent …

… (F) 3–6 day old males of each wMel variant line and w 1118 iso were pricked with DCV (10
7.5 TCID 50 /ml) and collected 3 days later for RNA extraction and RT-qPCR. Relative …

… only from Tanzania, where it is found within the same population as strain Ug (Jiggins …
where N f and N m are the numbers of females and males in the population, respectively. The sex …