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SUBMITTER: Greischar MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4334120 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Greischar Megan A MA Read Andrew F AF Bjørnstad Ottar N ON
The American naturalist 20131216 2
Malaria parasites exhibit great diversity in the coordination of their asexual life cycle within the host, ranging from asynchronous growth to tightly synchronized cycles of invasion and emergence from red blood cells. Synchronized reproduction should come at a high cost--intensifying competition among offspring--so why would some Plasmodium species engage in such behavior and others not? We use a delayed differential equation model to show that synchronized infections can be favored when (1) th ...[more]