ArticleEvolution letters2018
Decomposing parasite fitness reveals the basis of specialization in a two-host, two-parasite system.
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Abstract
The ecological specialization of parasites-whether they can obtain high fitness on very few or very many different host species-is a determining feature of their ecology. In order to properly assess specialization, it is imperative to measure parasite fitness across host species; to understand its origins, fitness must be decomposed into the underlying traits. Despite the omnipresence of parasites with multiple hosts, very few studies assess and decompose their specialization in this way. To bridge this gap, we quantified the infectivity, virulence, and transmission rate of two parasites, the horizontally transmitted microsporidians
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