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Empirical Support for Optimal Virulence in a Castrating Parasite

The trade-off hypothesis for the evolution of virulence predicts that parasite transmission stage production and host exploitation are balanced such that lifetime transmission success (LTS) is maximised. However, the experimental evidence for this prediction is weak, mainly because LTS, which indica...

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Autores principales: Jensen, Knut Helge, Little, Tom, Skorping, Arne, Ebert, Dieter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16719563
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040197