Maximum Host Survival at Intermediate Parasite Infection Intensities
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Maximum Host Survival at Intermediate Parasite Infection Intensities
BACKGROUND Although parasitism has been acknowledged as an important selective force in the evolution of host life histories, studies of fitness effects of parasites in wild populations have yielded mixed results. One reason for this may be that most studies only test for a linear relationship between infection intensity and host fitness. If resistance to parasites is costly, however, fitness m...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002463