Superinfections and adaptive dynamics of pathogen virulence revisited: A critical function analysis

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 153-175

  Boldin, Barbara ^a   Geritz, Stefan A H ^a   Kisdi, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Branching; Co existence of pathogen strains; Critical function analysis; Cuperinfection model; Trade off; Virulence evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650707356     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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