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. 1990 Oct;5(10):326-9.
doi: 10.1016/0169-5347(90)90179-H.

Parasite-host coevolution

C A Toft  1 , A J Karter
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Parasite-host coevolution

C A Toft et al. Trends Ecol Evol. 1990 Oct.

Abstract

Parasite-host coevolution can have many different endpoints, not simply the commensalism of 'conventional wisdom'. Empirical studies and mathematical models are elucidating the conditions under which parasite-host systems can coevolve to intermediate and high levels of parasite virulence - and when they can coevolve to commensalism and mutualism.

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