About this Research Topic
The goal of this Research Topic is to demonstrate the potential of HTS for characterizing interactions among parasite, pathogen, and microbiome communities in non-model host species. In particular, we are seeking research that takes an ecological approach to better understand within-host interactions in the context of natural environmental variation. Research may use metagenomics, transcriptomics, metabarcoding, or other HTS-based approaches, combined with analytical tools from ecology and molecular biology to characterize these interactions, and their relationships with environmental variables.
Submissions should use HTS approaches to address the following:
- Describing parasite communities in natural host populations.
- Identifying interactions among parasites, or among parasites, microbiomes, and hosts.
- Understanding the effects of ecological variables on parasite communities, or parasite-microbiome-host interactions.
Keywords: NGS, HTS, Metabarcoding, Molecular Ecology, Wildlife, Natural Host Systems, Parasite, Host, Microbiome
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