Antagonistic coevolution with parasites increases the cost of host deleterious mutations
- 11 October 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 273 (1582) , 45-49
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3279
Abstract
The fitness consequences of deleterious mutations are sometimes greater when individuals are parasitized, hence parasites may result in the more rapid purging of deleterious mutations from host pop...Keywords
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