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Feeding the host reshapes virulence: nonlinear scaling in a microsporidian pathogen

2026-03-27

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Resource availability is a central driver of ecological and evolutionary processes, yet its effects on infectious disease and virulence are not fully understood. A key limitation is that many studies consider only a narrow range of resource conditions or a limited subset of host and pathogen traits, potentially obscuring non-linear relationships. Here, we quantify how a gradient of six food levels simultaneously s...

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Literature Corpus work: 9a230245-0b97-52bf-aefc-f247a2ab0dcf
DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.26.714583

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