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Parasite—host coevolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

R. M. May  and
R. M. Anderson
R. M. May
Affiliation:
Department of Pure and Applied Biology, Imperial College, London SW7 2BB
R. M. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Pure and Applied Biology, Imperial College, London SW7 2BB
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In this paper we wish to develop three themes, each having to do with evolutionary aspects of associations between hosts and parasites (with parasite defined broadly, to include viruses, bacteria and protozoans, along with the more conventionally defined helminth and arthropod parasites). The three themes are: the evolution of virulence; the population dynamics and population genetics of host–parasite associations; and invasions by, or ‘emergence’ of, new parasites.

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parasite–host coevolutionvirulencepopulation dynamicspopulation genetics

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Parasitology , Volume 100 , Issue S1: Symposia of the British Society for Parasitology Volume 27:The evolutionary biology of parasitism , June 1990 , pp. S89 - S101
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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