Synchrony in Malaria Infections: How Intensifying Within-Host Competition Can Be Adaptive
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Synchrony in malaria infections: how intensifying within-host competition can be adaptive.
Malaria parasites exhibit great diversity in the coordination of their asexual life cycle within the host, ranging from asynchronous growth to tightly synchronized cycles of invasion and emergence from red blood cells. Synchronized reproduction should come at a high cost--intensifying competition among offspring--so why would some Plasmodium species engage in such behavior and others not? We us...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Naturalist
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0003-0147,1537-5323
DOI: 10.1086/674357