Parasite evolution in an age-structured population
Although mortality increases with age in most organisms, senescence is missing from models of parasite evolution. Since virulence evolves according to the host's mortality, and since virulence influences the intensity of transmission, which determines the average age at infection and thus the m...
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Academic Press
2021
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