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SUBMITTER: Godfree RC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1815254 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Godfree Robert C RC Thrall Peter H PH Young Andrew G AG
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070213 8
Predicting the magnitude of enemy release in host-pathogen systems after introduction of novel disease resistance genes has become a central problem in ecology. Here, we develop a general quantitative framework for predicting changes in realized niche size and intrinsic population growth rate after introgression of disease resistance genes into wild host populations. We then apply this framework to a model host-pathogen system targeted by genetically modified and conventionally bred disease-resi ...[more]