Article
The uneasy coexistence of predators and pathogens
2019-08-01
Abstract excerpt
Disease and predation are both highly important in ecology, and pathogens with multiple host species have turned out to be common. Nonetheless, the interplay between multi-host epidemics and predation has received relatively little attention. Here, we analyse a model of a predator-prey system with disease in both prey and predator populations and determine reasonable parameter values using allometric mass scaling...
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- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
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- Literature Corpus work
- 971d6fa0-5459-578e-adcc-f8a966b2d7b7
- DOI
- 10.1101/721506