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Snow leopards (Panthera uncia) serve as an umbrella species whose conservation benefits their high-elevation Asian habitat. Their numbers are belie...

Young Systematists’ Forum – The Systematics Association

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A groundbreaking book about the past, present, and future of pandemics, and a behind-the-scenes portrait of the intrepid and innovative community of scientists working tirelessly to stop the next one ...

Sequencing the genome and microbiome of about 1,500 tick samples from regions across China revealed host–microbe associations in ticks that could have implications for controlling ticks and tick-borne diseases.

Seawater intrusion and sea level rise (SWISLR), driven by climate change, pose significant threats to coastal agroecosystems, particularly salt-affected paddy soils. Despite the importance of these sy...

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed stark inequities in access to life-saving technologies and innovations, particularly for countries in the Global South. While scientific advances were rapid, the benefits of those breakthroughs were not equitably shared, highlighting deep structural imbalances in global health governance. In response, Canadian institutions must lead by example to ensure that future innovations arising from publicly funded research are made equitably accessible. The Global Health Access and Equity Workshop, held in March 2025 by the Neglected Global Diseases Initiative at UBC, convened experts from academia, civil society, and government to identify key barriers and propose a framework for action. This viewpoint outlines the workshop’s vision, summarizes outcomes, and calls for the establishment of a Canadian framework guided by Global Access and Equity Principles (GAEP) to promote health equity globally and fulfill Canada’s moral, scientific, and policy obligations in the post-pandemic era.

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The symbiotic agriculture of fungus-farming termites can collapse if they fail to prevent invading weeds. Previous studies suggest a role for symbiotic fungistatic microbes in bringing about weed cont...

Understanding the complex interactions between microbes and their environment requires robust model systems such as synthetic communities (SynComs). We developed a functionally directed approach to ge...

Silva and King discuss the concept of virulence and the ecological and evolutionary factors that shape it.

The Department of Integrative Biology is dedicated to excellence in research and scholarship. Our department consists of full-time faculty who lead research in three overlapping themes, including comparative animal physiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.

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