If you imagine a scenario where an individual had unlimited resources, anything that required some investment wouldn’t be a big deal. It would be able to send some of these resources to achieve the required task and go on about its business without worrying about cutting costs elsewhere. When resources are limited, this changes…. Read more »
Posts Tagged: expression
Why infection outcome varies, and why it matters.
Ben Sadd and I recently wrote a review about heterogeneity in infection outcomes. We were tasked with writing a review about the bumblebee-trypanosome system that we work on, but we wanted to expand the discussion a bit further than simply explaining the workings of our own system. We tried instead to use what is… Read more »
Franzi’s first paper is out!
Franziska Brünner was my first student here at the ETH and a paper from her semesterarbeit has been published in PLoS One. Franzi’s paper explores the expression of immune genes in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris when they are infected with the trypanosome gut parasite Crithidia bombi. Unlike most other papers looking at gene expression in bumblebees we used colonies that… Read more »