The relationship of within-host multiplication and virulence in a plant-virus system.

Virulence does not represent any obvious advantage to parasites. Most models of virulence evolution assume that virulence is an unavoidable consequence of within-host multiplication of parasites, resulting in trade-offs between within-host multiplication and between-host transmission fitness compone...

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Main Authors: Israel Pagán, Carlos Alonso-Blanco, Fernando García-Arenal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-08-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1950075?pdf=render