Yael Artzy-Randrup, Mary M Rorick ... Mercedes Pascual
Mathematical modeling shows that local populations of the malaria parasite self-organize into a limited number of transient but distinct strains through competition for hosts in immunity space.
While flooding events may drive spillover transmission of Leptospira spp. through dispersal of the bacteria at low elevations, at higher elevations environmental risk is more localised and directly driven by the distribution of local rat reservoir populations.
Kimberley H Gibson, Felipe Trajtenberg ... Charles Vaughn Sindelar
The corkscrew-like motility of Spirochete bacteria is enabled by a unique, asymmetrically constructed flagellum that wraps around the cell body within the periplasm.
Michael A Kovacs, Maureen N Cowan ... Tajie H Harris
In the setting of CNS infection, meningeal lymphatic drainage promotes dendritic cell and T cell responses in the deep cervical lymph nodes but is not necessary for maintaining control of parasite in the brain.
Giancarlo Cicconofri, Giovanni Noselli, Antonio DeSimone
The 'spinning lasso' geometry of Euglena's beating flagellum is revealed, and a model based on the antagonistic forces exchanged by axoneme and paraflagellar rod is proposed to explain its emergence.
Genome dilution limits cell growth by modulating the activities, rather than the concentrations, of RNA polymerases and ribosomes, and is accompanied by changes in proteome composition.