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The pleiotropic cost of host-specialization in Tobacco etch potyvirus.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2008
Agudelo-Romero Patricia, de la Iglesia Francisca, Elena Santiago F
Abstract excerpt
Host-range expansion is thought to allow viruses to broaden their ecological niches by allowing access to new resources. However, traits governing the infection of multiple hosts may decrease fitness in the original one due to the pleiotropic effect of adaptive mutations that may give rise to fitness tradeoffs across hosts. Here, we have experimentally examined the consequences of host-specialization in the plant...
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