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 ...

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 ...

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 ...