Short-term fitness consequences of parasitism depend on host genotype and within-host parasite community.

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Multiparasite communities inhabiting individual hosts are common and often consist of parasites from multiple taxa. The effects of parasite community composition and complexity on host fitness are critical for understanding how host-parasite coevolution is affected by parasite diversity. To test how naturally occurring parasites affect host fitness of multiple host genotypes, we performed a common-garden...

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