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Temperature effects on parasite prevalence in a natural hybrid complex.
Biology letters - 23 Feb 2011
Schoebel Corine N, Tellenbach Christoph, Spaak Piet, Wolinska Justyna
Abstract excerpt
Both host susceptibility and parasite infectivity commonly have a genetic basis, and can therefore be shaped by coevolution. However, these traits are often sensitive to environmental variation, resulting in genotype-by-environment interactions. We tested the influence of temperature on host-parasite genetic specificity in the Daphnia longispina hybrid complex, exposed to the protozoan parasite Caullerya mesnili....
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