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Causation without correlation: parasite-mediated frequency-dependent selection and infection prevalence.

Biology letters - 1 Dec 2021

Lively Curtis M, Xu Julie, Ben-Ami Frida

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Parasite-mediated selection is thought to maintain host genetic diversity for resistance. We might thus expect to find a strong positive correlation between host genetic diversity and infection prevalence across natural populations. Here, we used computer simulations to examine host-parasite coevolution in 20 simi-isolated clonal populations across a broad range of values for both parasite virulence and parasite...

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PMID: 34932924
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0321
PMCID: PMC8692037

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