background: biting habit of mosquitoes plays an important role in the epidemiology of mosquito-borne diseases. mosquitoes use a set of elaborate sensory modalities to find their preferred hosts by exploiting cues emanating from a nearby host. it has been suggested that the chemical profile of skin can provide further support for anthropophilic mosquito species to find their suitable hosts. this...

As rightly stated by the author Mira Grant in her novel Countdown, “There is nothing so patient, this world or any other, as a virus searching for host” [...]

Pathogens infecting mammalian cells have developed various strategies to suppress and evade their hosts’ defensive mechanisms. In this line, the intracellular bacteria that are able to survive and propagate within their host cells must have developed strategies to avert their host’s killing attitude. Studying the interface of host-pathogen confrontation can provide valuable information for defi...

15 The long-term stability of microbiomes is crucial as the persistent occurrence of beneficial microbes and their associ16 ated functions ensure host health. Microbiomes are highly diverse and dynamic, but are they complex to the point of 17 being impossible to understand? We present an approach that while embracing this complexity it allows to identifying 18 meaningful patterns: the dynamic c...