The evolution of pathogens has received attention in a wide range of scientific fields, such as epidemiology, demography, and evolutionary ecology. Understanding pathogen evolution is particularly ...

Across the Bay Area, a citizen science project has found four instances of a more aggressive and heat-resilient form of a pathogen killing California oak trees. The project was started by Matteo ...

The “sudden oak death” pathogen, which behaves like a fungus and is always fatal to red oaks, was recently discovered on a rhododendron plant at a Hennepin County nursery. The plant has been destroyed ...