Temperature fluctuations such as heatwaves can have very different effects on infection rates and disease outcomes depending on the average background temperatu
Temperature fluctuations such as heatwaves can have very different effects on infection rates and disease outcomes depending on the average background temperature, says a report published today in eLife.
Temperature variation affects pathogens and their hosts in distinct ways, and these organisms are influenced by the type of variation and the average background temperature it is applied to.
Every person who is moderately interested in dinosaurs knows the theory that they were wiped out some 66 million years ago when an asteroid or comet struck Earth, causing the most famous mass extinction event in history. What many people do not realise is that moment was not the most devastating mass extinction event to hit the planet, far from.