The genotype specific competitive ability does not correlate with infection in natural Daphnia magna populations.
<h4>Background</h4>Different evolutionary hypotheses predict a correlation between the fitness of a genotype in the absence of infection and the likelihood to become infected. The cost of resistance hypothesis predicts that resistant genotypes pay a cost of being resistant and are less f...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2007-12-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001280 |