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Coinfection accelerates transmission to new hosts despite no effects on virulen...
Godinho, Diogo; Rodrigues, Leonor R; Lefèvre, Sophie; Magalhães, Sara; Duncan, Alison B.One of the fundamental aims of ecological, epidemiological and evolutionary studies of host–parasite interactions is to unravel which factors affect parasite virulence. Theory predicts that virulence and transmission are correlated by a trade-off, as too much virulence is expected to hamper transmission owing to excessive host damage. Coinfections may affect each of these traits and/or their correlation. Here, ...
Consequences of population structure for sex allocation and sexual conflict
Rodrigues, Leonor R; Torralba Sáez, Mario; Alpedrinha, João; Lefèvre, Sophie; Brengues, Muriel; Magalhães, Sara; Duncan, Alison B.Both sex allocation and sexual conflict can be modulated by spatial structure. However, how the interplay between the type of dispersal and the scale of competition simultaneously affects these traits in sub-divided populations is rarely considered. We investigated sex allocation and sexual conflict evolution in meta-populations of the spider mite Tetranychus urticae evolving under budding (pairing females from...
Consequences of population structure for sex allocation and sexual conflict
Rodrigues, Leonor R; Torralba Sáez, Mario; Alpedrinha, João; Lefèvre, Sophie; Brengues, Muriel; Magalhaes, S; Duncan, Alison B.Both sex allocation and sexual conflict can be modulated by spatial structure. However, how the interplay between the type of dispersal and the scale of competition simultaneously affects these traits in sub-divided populations is rarely considered. We investigated sex allocation and sexual conflict evolution in meta-populations of the spider mite Tetranychus urticae evolving under budding (pairing females from...