Bacteriocins, spite and virulence.

There has been much interest in using social evolution theory to predict the damage to a host from parasite infection, termed parasite virulence. Most of this work has focused on how high kinship between the parasites infecting a host can select for more prudent exploitation of the host, leading to...

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Main Authors: Gardner, A, West, SA, Buckling, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2004