Université de Fribourg

Patho-genetics of Clostridium chauvoei

Frey, Joachim ; Falquet, Laurent

In: Research in Microbiology, 2014, p. -

The genomic sequence of Clostridium chauvoei, the etiological agent of blackleg, a severe disease of ruminants with high mortality specified by a myonecrosis reveals a chromosome of 2.8 million base-pairs and a cryptic plasmid of 5.5 kilo base-pairs. The chromosome contains the main pathways like glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, sugar metabolism, purine and pyrimidine metabolisms, but the notable...

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The impact of infection on host competition and its relationship to parasite persistence in a Daphnia microparasite system

Refardt, Dominik ; Ebert, Dieter

In: Evolutionary Ecology, 2012, vol. 26, no. 1, p. 95-107

Evolutionary studies often estimate fitness components with the aim to make predictions about the outcome of selection. Depending on the system and the question, different fitness components are used, but their usefulness for predicting the outcome of selection is rarely tested. Here we estimate host fitness components in different ways with the aim to test how well they agree with each other...