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Winning the arms race: host–parasite shared evolutionary history reduces infection risks in fish final hosts

Parasite manipulation of intermediate hosts evolves to increase parasite trophic transmission to final hosts, yet counter selection should act on the final host to reduce infection risk and costs. However, determining who wins this arms race and to what extent is challenging. Here, for the first tim...

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Autores principales: Sheath, Danny J., Dick, Jaimie T. A., Dickey, James W. E., Guo, Zhiqiang, Andreou, Demetra, Britton, J. Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6083226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30045905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0363