Ben Longdon

This study examines microbiome-virus interactions across Drosophila species, finding that specific bacterial taxa influence viral load but microbiome composition shows limited phylogenetic structuring.

The paper quantifies how host-virus genetic interactions shape fitness variance in Drosophila and sigma virus, showing that interactions dominate over additive effects.

This study examines how microbiome effects on pathogen susceptibility vary across four Drosophilidae species, finding species-specific responses and limited overall microbiome influence on survival.

This study investigates how bacterial phylogeny influences virulence and phage efficacy in vivo, finding phylogenetic patterns in virulence but not in phage efficacy, and no correlation between in vitro and in vivo phage efficacy.

This paper provides a standardized agar food recipe for rearing multiple Drosophila species and reports life history and infection susceptibility data across 42 species.

The paper examines susceptibility to four bacterial pathogens across 36 Drosophilidae species, finding strong phylogenetic signal in susceptibility, particularly for Providencia rettgeri.

The paper examines phylogenetic correlations in susceptibility to multiple viruses across Drosophilidae hosts and finds positive correlations, with stronger links within viral species and families.