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Tracking costs of virulence in natural populations of the wheat pathogen, Puccinia striiformis f.sp.tritici.
BMC evolutionary biology - 30 Jan 2009
Bahri Bochra, Kaltz Oliver, Leconte Marc, de Vallavieille-Pope Claude, Enjalbert Jérôme
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Costs of adaptation play an important role in host-parasite coevolution. For parasites, evolving the ability to circumvent host resistance may trade off with subsequent growth or transmission. Such costs of virulence (sensu plant pathology) limit the spread of all-infectious genotypes and thus facilitate the maintenance of genetic polymorphism in both host and parasite. We investigated costs of three...
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