HIGHLIGHTS
- who: PLoS BIOLOGY and collaborators from the s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Génétique et Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses, Montpellier, France have published the article: Prevalence-Dependent Costs of Parasite Virulence, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: The authors show that parasitism modifies intraspecific competitiveness for the host.
SUMMARY
The presence of parasitism creates heterogeneity in host populations: Parasitised hosts may have different behaviour, different food requirements, different feeding rates, or different sensitivity to stress, such as pollution. This heterogeneity can modify intraspecific competition among individuals within host populations. There are . . .
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