Prevalence-Dependent Costs of Parasite Virulence

Costs of parasitism are commonly measured by comparing the performance of infected groups of individuals to that of uninfected control groups. This measure potentially underestimates the cost of parasitism because it ignores indirect costs, which may result from the modification of the competitivene...

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Main Authors: Bedhomme, Stephanie, Agnew, Philip, Vital, Yuri, Sidobre, Christine, Michalakis, Yannis
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2005
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1175819/