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Experimental evolution of infectious behaviour in a facultative ectoparasite.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Mar 2018

Durkin E S, Luong L T

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Parasitic lifestyles have evolved many times in animals, but how such life-history strategies evolved from free-living ancestors remains a great puzzle. Transitional symbiotic strategies, such as facultative parasitism, are hypothesized evolutionary stepping stones towards obligate parasitism. However, to consider this hypothesis, heritable genetic variation in infectious behaviour of transitional symbiotic...

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PMID: 29282821
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13227

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