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Host-parasite coevolution can promote the evolution of seed banking as a bet-hedging strategy
2018-02-27
Abstract excerpt
Seed (egg) banking is a common bet-hedging strategy maximizing the fitness of organisms facing environmental unpredictability by the delayed emergence of offspring. Yet, this condition often requires fast and drastic stochastic shifts between good and bad years. We hypothesize that the host seed banking strategy can evolve in response to coevolution with parasites because the coevolutionary cycles promote a gradua...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cc3d406f-a01c-50e7-8b53-11312ae39df9
- DOI
- 10.1101/273003