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Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution.
Ecology letters - 1 Feb 2025
Li Jingdi, Smith Cameron A, Chen Jinlin, Bates Kieran A, King Kayla C
Abstract excerpt
Climate change is increasing extreme heating events and the potential for disease outbreaks. Whether hosts can adapt to infection with rising temperatures is important for forecasting species persistence. We tested whether warming-at different host life stages-affects the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans infected by a wild bacterial pathogen. We competed resistant and...
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- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Climate Change
- Genotype
- Host-Pathogen Interactions
