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Species' life-history traits explain interspecific variation in reservoir competence: a possible mechanism underlying the dilution effect.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2013

Huang Zheng Y X, de Boer Willem F, van Langevelde Frank, Olson Valerie, Blackburn Tim M, Prins Herbert H T

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Hosts species for multi-host pathogens show considerable variation in the species' reservoir competence, which is usually used to measure species' potential to maintain and transmit these pathogens. Although accumulating research has proposed a trade-off between life-history strategies and immune defences, only a few studies extended this to host species' reservoir competence. Using a phylogenetic comparative...

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PMID: 23365661
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054341
PMCID: PMC3554779

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