Symbiont Survival and Host-Symbiont Disequilibria Under Differential Vertical Transmission
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Symbiont survival and host-symbiont disequilibria under differential vertical transmission.
Interspecific genetic interactions in host-symbiont systems raise intriguing coevolutionary questions and may influence the effectiveness of public health and management policies. Here we present an analytical and numerical investigation of the effects of host genetic heterogeneity in the rate of vertical transmission of a symbiont. We consider the baseline case with a monomorphic symbiont and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/154.3.1347