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Abstract: Many animal species harbour microbes in their microbiota that suppress pathogen infection. These ‘protective microbes’ can be a significant component of host defence. Through both experimental evolution of microbial systems and bioinformatics to track genomic changes, my group has demonstrated that host-associated microbes can drive major changes in pathogen virulence and resistance, as well as coevolutionary dynamics and evolutionary rates. Our results indicate that microbes in hosts are important in shaping infection outcomes, now and across evolutionary time.

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