Conflicts with diarrheal pathogens trigger rapid evolution of an intestinal signaling axis
C. M. Carey, S. E. Apple, Z. A. Hilbert, M. S. Kay, N. C. Elde
The paper investigates how diarrheal pathogens drive evolutionary changes in the GC-C receptor and its ligand in mammals, showing evidence of positive selection and coevolution.
bioRxiv · Mar 29, 2020Evolutionary Biology