Article
The importance of who infects whom: the evolution of diversity in host resistance to infectious disease.
Ecology letters - 1 Oct 2012
Boots Mike, White Andy, Best Alex, Bowers Roger
Abstract excerpt
Variation for resistance to infectious disease is ubiquitous and critical to host and parasite evolution and to disease impact, spread and control. However, the processes that generate and maintain this diversity are not understood. We examine how ecological feedbacks generate diversity in host defence focussing on when polymorphism can evolve without co-evolution of the parasite. Our key result is that when...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Communicable Diseases
- Disease Resistance
- Genetic Variation
- Inheritance Patterns
- Polymorphism, Genetic