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. 2019 Apr;73(4):858-859.
doi: 10.1111/evo.13724. Epub 2019 Mar 28.

Digest: Little evidence exists for a virulence-transmission trade-off

Tobias E Hector  1 , Isobel Booksmythe  1
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Digest: Little evidence exists for a virulence-transmission trade-off

Tobias E Hector et al. Evolution. 2019 Apr.

Abstract

Research predicting the impact and spread of infectious disease has been heavily influenced by the idea of an evolutionary trade-off between a pathogen's virulence and its transmission rate. In a meta-analysis of the key underlying relationships, Acevedo et al. (2019) highlight the surprising lack of empirical evidence for this influential hypothesis.

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