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Parasites driving host diversity: Incidence of disease correlated with Daphnia clonal turnover.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Mar 2018
Turko Patrick, Tellenbach Christoph, Keller Esther, Tardent Nadine, Keller Barbara, Spaak Piet, Wolinska Justyna
Abstract excerpt
According to the Red Queen hypothesis, clonal diversity in asexual populations could be maintained by negative frequency-dependant selection by coevolving parasites. If common clones are selected against and rare clones gain a concomitant advantage, we expect that clonal turnover should be faster during parasite epidemics than between them. We tested this hypothesis exploring field data of the Daphnia-Caullerya...
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