ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Clonemate cotransmission supports a role for kin selection in a puppeteer parasite.
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- Evidence of population structuring following population genetic analyses of Fasciola hepatica from Argentina.International journal for parasitology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Host manipulation by parasites is a fascinating evolutionary outcome, but adaptive scenarios that often accompany even iconic examples in this popular field of study are speculative. Kin selection has been invoked as a means of explaining the evolution of an altruistic-based, host-manipulating behavior caused by larvae of the lancet fluke
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