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...
| Format: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2005-08-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030262 |