Wilfert lab
Molecular evolution
Recent publications
Bonneaud C, Sepil I, Wilfert L, Calsbeek, R (2017). Plasmodium Infections in Natural Populations of Anolis sagrei Reflect Tolerance Rather Than Susceptibility. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 57, 2, 352–361.
Longdon B, [...], Wilfert L, [...], Jiggins F M (2017). Vertically transmitted rhabdoviruses are found across three insect families and have dynamic interactions with their hosts. Proc Biol Sci, 284, 1847,
Doublet V, Poeschl Y, [...], Christina M. Grozinger (2017). Unity in defence: honeybee workers exhibit conserved molecular responses to diverse pathogens. BMC Genomics,18:207.
Campbell LJ, Head ML, Wilfert L, Griffiths AGF (2017). An ecological role for assortative mating under infection? Conservation genetics, 1–12.
McMahon DP, Natsopoulou ME, Doublet V, Fürst M, Weging S, Brown MJF, Gogol-Döring A, Paxton RJ (2016). Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype as a driver of honeybee loss. Proc Biol Sci B, 283: 20160811.
Engel P, Kwong WK, McFrederick Q, [...], Doublet V, [...], Dainat B (2016). The bee microbiome: impact on bee health and model for evolution and ecology of host-microbe interactions. mBio, 7(2):e02164-15.
Wilfert L, Long G, Leggett HC, Schmid-Hempel P, Butlin R, Martin SJM, Boots M (2016). Deformed wing virus is a recent global epidemic in honeybees driven by Varroa mites. Science, 351(6273), 594-597.
Mordecai GJ, Wilfert L, Martin SJ, Jones IM, Schroeder DC (2015). Diversity in a honey bee pathogen: first report of a third master variant of the Deformed Wing Virus quasispecies. The ISME Journal: multidisciplinary journal of microbial ecology.
Doublet V, Labarussias M, de Miranda JR, Moritz RF, Paxton RJ (2015). Bees under stress: sublethal doses of a neonicotinoid pesticide and pathogens interact to elevate honey bee mortality across the life cycle.Environ Microbiol, 17(4), 969-983.
Manley R, Boots M, Wilfert L (2015). Emerging viral disease risk to pollinating insects: ecological, evolutionary and anthropogenic factors. J Appl Ecol, 52, 331-340.
Natsopoulou ME, McMahon DP, Doublet V, Bryden J, Paxton RJ (2015). Interspecific competition in honeybee intracellular gut parasites is asymmetric and favours the spread of an emerging infectious disease. Proc Biol Sci, 282(1798).
Doublet V, Ubrig E, Alioua A, Bouchon D, Marcadé I, Maréchal-Drouard L (2015). Large gene overlaps and tRNA processing in the compact mitochondrial genome of the crustacean Armadillidium vulgare. RNA Biol,12(10), 1159-1168.
Wilfert L, Jiggins FM (2014). Flies on the move: an inherited virus mirrors Drosophila melanogaster's elusive ecology and demography. Molecular Ecology,23(8), 2093-2104.
Wilfert L, Jiggins FM (2013). The dynamics of reciprocal selective sweeps of host resistance and a parasite counter-adaptation in drosophila. Evolution,67(3), 761-773.
Longdon B, Wilfert L, Obbard DJ, Jiggins FM (2011). Rhabdoviruses in two species of Drosophila: vertical transmission and a recent sweep. Genetics, 188(1), 141-150.
Wilfert L, Longdon B, Ferreira AG, Bayer F, Jiggins FM (2011). Trypanosomatids are common and diverse parasites of Drosophila. Parasitology, 138(7), 858-865.
