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Short-sighted evolution of virulence for invasive gut microbes: from hypothesis to tests.

2024-07-24

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Why microbes harm their hosts is a fundamental question in evolutionary biology with broad relevance to our understanding of infectious diseases. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain this "evolution of virulence." In this perspective, we re-examine one of these hypotheses in the specific context of the human gut microbiome, namely short-sighted evolution. According to the short-sighted evolution hypoth...

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Literature Corpus work: e1637422-e531-5722-8cea-77ea934ae297
DOI: 10.32942/x2w915

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