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Effects of temperature on the fitness cost of resistance to bacteriophage T4 in Escherichia coli.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jun 2009
Quance Michael A, Travisano Michael
Abstract excerpt
Resistance to predation, herbivory, or disease often comes at a cost such that resistant genotypes are competitively inferior to their sensitive counterparts in the absence of predators, herbivores, or pathogens. The effects of this trade-off on natural populations depend on its sensitivity to environmental changes. We used Escherichia coli and bacteriophage T4 as a model predator/prey system to study the effects...
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