Tracking costs of virulence in natural populations of the wheat pathogen, <it>Puccinia striiformis </it>f.sp.<it>tritici</it>
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Costs of adaptation play an important role in host-parasite coevolution. For parasites, evolving the ability to circumvent host resistance may trade off with subsequent growth or transmission. Such costs of virulence (<it>sensu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-01-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/9/26 |