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Host population bottlenecks drive parasite extinction during antagonistic coevolution

Host–parasite interactions are often characterized by large fluctuations in host population size, and we investigated how such host bottlenecks affected coevolution between a bacterium and a virus. Previous theory suggests that host bottlenecks should provide parasites with an evolutionary advantage...

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Autores principales: Hesse, Elze, Buckling, Angus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26661325
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12837