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Direct and correlated responses to selection in a host-parasite system: testing for the emergence of genotype specificity.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Aug 2007
Nidelet Thibault, Kaltz Oliver
Abstract excerpt
Genotype x environment interactions can facilitate coexistence of locally adapted specialists. Interactions evolve if adaptation to one environment trades off with performance in others. We investigated whether evolution on one host genotype traded off with performance on others in long-term experimental populations of different genotypes of the protozoan Paramecium caudatum, infected with the bacterial parasite...
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