Vector-Microbe Interactions

Dear Colleagues,

In this Special Issue, we will focus on the role that resident endosymbionts play in the biology of arthropod vectors of infectious disease, particularly in the acquisition and transmission of microbial pathogens. Recent advances have unveiled remarkable interplay between vertically inherited endosymbionts and their arthropod hosts. We welcome papers dealing with direct interactions between endosymbiont and pathogen (for example, pathogen exclusion) as well as papers that address endosymbiont-arthropod interactions and how they may affect vector evolutionary and ecological fitness, pathogen acquisition or transmission (for example, metabolic interdependence or reproductive manipulation). Population genomics or genome evolution (relative to arthropod host biology and ecology) studies are clearly within the focus of this Special Issue. Please do not submit ecological studies that describe co-occurrence patterns of microbial species. In case of doubt as to whether your manuscript falls within the focus of this Special Issue, please send us an abstract.

Prof. Rita Rio
Prof. Timothy Driscoll
Guest Editors

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• endosymbiont
• vector
• pathogen
• host-symbiont interactions
• vector-borne infectious disease