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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 32, Issue 8, Pages 612-623Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.05.009
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- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Australian Research Council
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Molecular and cellular studies reveal that the resistance of hosts to parasites and pathogens is a cascade-like process with multiple steps required to be passed for successful infection. By contrast, much of evolutionary reasoning is based on strongly simplified, one-or two-step infection processes with simple genetics or on resistance being a quantitative trait. Here we attempt a conceptual unification of these two perspectives with the aim of cross-fostering research and filling some of the gaps in our concepts of the ecology and evolution of disease. This conceptual unification has a profound impact on the way we understand the genetics and evolution of host resistance, ecological immunity, evolution of virulence, defence portfolios, and host-pathogen coevolution.
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