Host species exploitation and discrimination by animal parasites
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Host species exploitation and discrimination by animal parasites
Parasite species often show differential fitness on different host species. We developed an equation-based model to explore conditions favouring host species exploitation and discrimination. In our model, diploid infective stages randomly encountered hosts of two species; the parasite's relative fitness in exploiting each host species, and its ability to discriminate between them, was determine...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0090