ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2022
Evolution of class-structured populations in periodic environments.
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- Metapopulation heterogeneities in host mobility, productivity, and immunocompetency always increase virulence and infectiousness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Eco-evolutionary dynamics of structured populations in periodically fluctuating environments: a G function approach.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2024Article
- Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- How do fluctuating ecological dynamics impact the evolution of hosts and parasites?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Host Phenology Can Select for Multiple Stable Parasite Virulence Strategies in Obligate Killer Parasites.The American naturalist · 2023Article
- Timescales modulate optimal lysis-lysogeny decision switches and near-term phage reproduction.Virus evolution · 2022Article
- Regulation of prophage induction and lysogenization by phage communication systems.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
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Abstract
What is the influence of periodic environmental fluctuations on life-history evolution? We present a general theoretical framework to understand and predict the long-term evolution of life-history traits under a broad range of ecological scenarios. Specifically, we investigate how periodic fluctuations affect selection when the population is also structured in distinct classes. This analysis yields time-varying selection gradients that clarify the influence of the fluctuations of the environment on the competitive ability of a specific life-history mutation. We use this framework to analyse the evolution of key life-history traits of pathogens. We examine three different epidemiological scenarios and we show how periodic fluctuations of the environment can affect the evolution of virulence and transmission as well as the preference for different hosts. These examples yield new and testable predictions on pathogen evolution, and illustrate how our approach can provide a better understanding of the evolutionary consequences of time-varying environmental fluctuations in a broad range of scenarios.
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