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Ecological feedbacks and the evolution of resistance.
The Journal of animal ecology - 1 Nov 2009
Duffy Meghan A, Forde Samantha E
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1. The idea that parasites can affect host diversity is pervasive, and the possibility that parasites can increase host diversity is of particular interest. In this review, we focus on diversity in the resistance of hosts to their parasites, and on the different ways in which parasites can increase or decrease this resistance diversity. 2. Theoretically, parasites can exert many different types of selection on...
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