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Virulence and Local Adaptation of a Horizontally Transmitted Parasite
Abstract
Parasites are thought to maximize the number of successfully transmitted offspring by trading off propagule production against host survival. In a horizontally transmitted microparasitic disease in Daphnia , a planktonic crustacean, increasing geographic distance between host and parasite origin was found to be correlated with a decrease in spore production and virulence. This finding indicates local adaptation of the parasite, but contradicts the hypothesis that long-standing coevolved parasites are less virulent than novel parasites. Virulence can be explained as the consequence of balancing the positive genetic correlation between host mortality and strain-specific spore production.
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- Authors
- Ebert, D.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1994-08-19
- Volume
- 265
- Issue
- 5175
- Pages
- 1084-1086
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1964009112
- Cited by
- 498
- References
- 20
- FWCI
- 21.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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