The fetus does not reside in a sterile intrauterine environment and is exposed to commensal bacteria from the maternal gut/blood stream that cross the placenta and enter the amniotic fluid. This ...

One of the simplest hypotheses used to explain species coexistence is the competition–colonization trade-off, that is, species can stably coexist in a landscape if they show a trade-off between ...

As the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pathogen continues to spread the world over, public health authorities have had to resort to containment strategies such as case ...