Quantifying Transmission Investment in Malaria Parasites.
Many microparasites infect new hosts with specialized life stages, requiring a subset of the parasite population to forgo proliferation and develop into transmission forms. Transmission stage production influences infectivity, host exploitation, and the impact of medical interventions like drug trea...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-02-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4759450?pdf=render |