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SUBMITTER: Gomez P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4262181 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gómez Pedro P Ashby Ben B Buckling Angus A
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20150101 1798
The consequences of host-parasite coevolution are highly contingent on the qualitative coevolutionary dynamics: whether selection fluctuates (fluctuating selection dynamic; FSD), or is directional towards increasing infectivity/resistance (arms race dynamic; ARD). Both genetics and ecology can play an important role in determining whether coevolution follows FSD or ARD, but the ecological conditions under which FSD shifts to ARD, and vice versa, are not well understood. The degree of population ...[more]