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Higher parasite resistance in Daphnia populations with recent epidemics.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Nov 2010
Schoebel C N, Wolinska J, Spaak P
Abstract excerpt
Natural populations often show genetic variation in parasite resistance, forming the basis for evolutionary response to selection imposed by parasitism. We investigated whether previous epidemics selected for higher resistance to novel parasite isolates in a Daphnia galeata-microparasite system b...
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