Coevolutionary Epidemiology: Disease Spread, Local Adaptation, and Sex.

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How does evolution in parasite populations affect the rate of disease spread? In the present study, I derived the mean reproductive rate ([Formula: see text]) for a genetically diverse parasite population that is evolving with a similarly diverse host population. Assuming a matching-alleles model, I found that [Formula: see text] is a positive function of the covariance between the frequencies of "matching" host...

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