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The effect of spatial heterogeneity and parasites on the evolution of host diversity.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Jan 2004

Brockhurst Michael A, Rainey Paul B, Buckling Angus

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Both spatial heterogeneity and exploiters (parasites and predators) have been implicated as key ecological factors driving population diversification. However, it is unclear how these factors interact. We addressed this question using the common plant-colonizing bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens, which has been shown to diversify rapidly into spatial niche-specialist genotypes when propagated in laboratory...

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PMID: 15002778
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2556
PMCID: PMC1691556

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