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Spatial heterogeneity, frequency-dependent selection and polymorphism in host-parasite interactions
1 Jan 2011
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BACKGROUND: Genomic and pathology analysis has revealed enormous diversity in genes involved in disease, including those encoding host resistance and parasite effectors (also known in plant pathology as avirulence genes). It has been proposed that such variation may persist when an organism exists in a spatially structured metapopulation, following the geographic mosaic of coevolution. Here, we study...
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