Habitat Heterogeneity, Host Population Structure, and Parasite Local Adaptation
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Host range and local parasite adaptation.
Parasites may be expected to become locally adapted to their hosts. However, while many empirical studies have demonstrated local parasite adaptation, others have failed to demonstrate it, or have shown local parasite maladaptation. Researchers have suggested that gene flow can swamp local parasite-host dynamics and produce local adaptation only at certain geographical scales; others have argue...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Heredity
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0022-1503,1465-7333
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esx100