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Limiting opportunities for cheating stabilizes virulence in insect parasitic nematodes

Cooperative secretion of virulence factors by pathogens can lead to social conflict when cheating mutants exploit collective secretion, but do not contribute to it. If cheats outcompete cooperators within hosts, this can cause loss of virulence. Insect parasitic nematodes are important biocontrol to...

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Autores principales: Shapiro‐Ilan, David, Raymond, Ben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4778107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26989437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.12348