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Pathogens pull hardest in the coevolutionary arms-race to determine age-specific transmission biases
2025-11-20
Abstract excerpt
Juveniles across a wide range of species are more susceptible to pathogenic infection than their adult conspecifics, often driving epidemic spread. While high juvenile susceptibility can be related to developmental timing, recent theoretical studies have found that hosts often evolve high juvenile susceptibility given a trade-off with other host traits. However, most research on age-specific infection has focused...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f12435d3-8391-5ece-b57b-351c7f252aa7
- DOI
- 10.1101/2025.11.19.689276