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Species' Life-History Traits Explain Interspecific Variation in Reservoir Competence: A Possible Mechanism Underlying the Dilution Effect

Hosts species for multi-host pathogens show considerable variation in the species' reservoir competence, which is usually used to measure species' potential to maintain and transmit these pathogens. Although accumulating research has proposed a trade-off between life-history strategies and...

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Autores principales: Huang, Zheng Y. X., de Boer, Willem F., van Langevelde, Frank, Olson, Valerie, Blackburn, Tim M., Prins, Herbert H. T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3554779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23365661
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054341