Unrestricted migration favours virulent pathogens in experimental metapopulations: Evolutionary genetics of a rapacious life history

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1552, 2010, Pages 2503-2513

  Eshelman, Christal M ^a   Vouk, Roxanne ^a   Stewart, Jodi L ^a   Halsne, Elizabeth ^a   Lindsey, Haley A ^a   Schneider, Stacy ^a   Gualu, Miliyard ^a   Dean, Antony M ^b   Kerr, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental evolution; Life history evolution; Metapopulation; Prudence; Tragedy of the commons; Virulence

Indexed keywords

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; INFECTIVITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METAPOPULATION; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADSORPTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T4; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE; VIRUS ENTRY;

ADSORPTION; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VIRULENCE; VIRUS INTERNALIZATION;

EID: 77956466302     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0066     Document Type: Article

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