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The bitterling-mussel coevolutionary relationship in areas of recent and ancient sympatry.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2010
Reichard Martin, Polačik Matej, Tarkan Ali Serhan, Spence Rowena, Gaygusuz Ozcan, Ercan Ertan, Ondračková Markéta, Smith Carl
Abstract excerpt
Host-parasite relationships are often characterized by the rapid evolution of parasite adaptations to exploit their host, and counteradaptations in the host to avoid the costs imposed by parasitism. Hence, the current coevolutionary state between a parasite and its hosts is predicted to vary according to the history of sympatry and local abundance of interacting species. We compared a unique reciprocal...
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