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Unifying coexistence theory for ecological communities and pathogen strain competition

2026-05-30

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Predicting the outcome of species or pathogen strain competition is a fundamental aim in both community ecology and infectious disease dynamics. Recent work revealed major challenges in predicting strain co-circulation from ecological coexistence theory due to overcompensatory competition among pathogens for susceptible resources, which can prevent the re-invasion of other competing strains. This resource overcomp...

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Literature Corpus work: 59e2ebf1-e647-5e10-8664-d4a4b3b9609a
DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.27.728210

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