Differential tolerance to direct and indirect density-dependent costs of viral infection in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Population density and costs of parasite infection may condition the capacity of organisms to grow, survive and reproduce, i.e. their competitive ability. In host-parasite systems there are different competitive interactions: among uninfected hosts, among infected hosts, and between uninfected and i...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-07-01
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Series: | PLoS Pathogens |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2712083?pdf=render |