/newsroom/taxonomy/term/11050/all en /newsroom/channels/news/bigger-evolutionary-jump-more-lethal-cross-species-diseases-could-be-295778 <p>Some diseases which are fatal in one species can cause only mild discomfort in another—but it’s hard for scientists to predict how lethal a disease will be if it leaps across species.</p> <p>However, a new paper published this week in PNAS indicates that the evolutionary relationship between infected hosts can predict the impact of diseases.</p> Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:34:56 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 154549 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mega-experiment-shows-species-interactions-stronger-towards-tropics-and-lowlands-294854 <p>An international research team led by a ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University researcher used a simple experiment that mimics how plants and animals interact with each other—leaving seeds out for 24 hours to see how many get eaten. Seven thousand seed beds were deployed across a huge geographic scale, with 70 sites cutting across 18 mountains from Alaska to the equator.</p> Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:47:05 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 145346 at /newsroom