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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Host-Parasite Coevolution"”.
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ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HOST-PARASITE COEVOLUTION
… universally acknowledged that polymorphism at host immunity loci and corresponding parasite antigenicity loci, maintained by coevolution in pathosystems, is common and can persist for millions of years. Such polymorphisms and how they persist or break down are both fundamentally interesting and …
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A new theoretical treatment of pathogen and host evolution
… case; the SIR model of pathogen dynamics. In host-parasite coevolution, the parasite is selected to increase its infectivity while host is selected to resists the parasite infection. It is widely held that parasite-mediated sexual selection can further amplify the selective pressure on the …