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The danger hypothesis of virulence evolution

2026-05-25

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Multicellular organisms regularly encounter microbes, which are, however, only rarely pathogenic. Our understanding of this phenomenon is currently restricted due to lacking theory on evolutionary transitions between non-pathogenic and pathogenic microbial lifestyles. Here we addressed this gap by investigating a mathematical model of host-microbe interactions that is based on the danger theory of immunology, whic...

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Literature Corpus work: dfd89419-8fba-59c9-8aef-b0995e484e07
DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.20.726587

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