Host ecology determines the relative fitness of virus genotypes in mixed-genotype nucleopolyhedrovirus infections

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1018-1025

  Hodgson, D J ^a,b   Hitchman, R B ^a,c   Vanbergen, A J ^a   Hails, R S ^a   Possee, R D ^a   Cory, J S ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Differential selection; Fitness; Host ecology; Mixed infection; Nucleopolyhedrovirus; Panolis flammea; Pathogen; Resource partitioning; Virulence

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; SELECTION; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; LARVA; MOTH; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENOTYPE; LARVA; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOTHS; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SCOTLAND; TIME FACTORS;

CYPOVIRUS; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 4444255219     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00750.x     Document Type: Article

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