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Evolution and maintenance of microbe-mediated protection under occasional pathogen infection

2020-01-25

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Every host is colonized by a variety of microbes, some of which can protect their hosts from pathogen infection. However, pathogen presence naturally varies over time in nature, such as in the case of seasonal epidemics. We experimentally coevolved populations of Caenorhabditis elegans worm hosts with bacteria possessing protective traits ( Enterococcus faecalis ), in treatments varying the infection frequency w...

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Literature Corpus work: 5715c491-edd8-56a4-a191-674e8ba18d42
DOI: 10.1101/2020.01.24.917138

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