Publications by authors named "Hylke H Kortenbosch"
Airborne triazole-resistant spores of the human fungal pathogen are a significant human health problem as the agricultural use of triazoles has been selecting for cross-resistance to life-saving clinical triazoles. However, how to quantify exposure to airborne triazole-resistant spores remains unclear. Here, we describe a method for cost-effective wide-scale outdoor air sampling to measure both spore abundance as well as antifungal resistance fractions.
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- Microbiomes play crucial roles in essential processes like immune response, digestion, and detoxification, directly affecting an organism's fitness.
- An evolutionary experiment with genetically altered two-spotted spider mites was conducted to investigate how their microbiome changes when adapting to new host plants.
- Findings revealed a strong correlation between the spider mites' performance (like egg-laying and longevity) on new plants and the composition of their microbiome, suggesting that understanding these bacterial communities can help explain species performance across different resources.
Classical ecological theory posits that species partition resources such that each species occupies a unique resource niche. In general, the availability of more resources allows more species to co-occur. Thus, a strong relationship between communities of consumers and their resources is expected.
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