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Local adaptation at higher trophic levels: contrasting hyperparasite-pathogen infection dynamics in the field and laboratory.
Molecular ecology - 1 Apr 2017
Parratt Steven R, Barrès Benoit, Penczykowski Rachel M, Laine Anna-Liisa
Abstract excerpt
Predicting and controlling infectious disease epidemics is a major challenge facing the management of agriculture, human and wildlife health. Co-evolutionarily derived patterns of local adaptation among pathogen populations have the potential to generate variation in disease epidemiology; however, studies of local adaptation in disease systems have mostly focused on interactions between competing pathogens or...
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