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Experimental evidence that source genetic variation drives pathogen emergence.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Oct 2010
Dennehy John J, Friedenberg Nicholas A, McBride Robert C, Holt Robert D, Turner Paul E
Abstract excerpt
A pathogen can readily mutate to infect new host types, but this does not guarantee successful establishment in the new habitat. What factors, then, dictate emergence success? One possibility is that the pathogen population cannot sustain itself on the new host type (i.e. host is a sink), but mig...
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