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TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 12-16Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2005.11.008
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More than 20 years after Dawkins introduced the concept of 'extended phenotype' (i.e. phenotypes of hosts and parasites result from interactions between the two genomes) and although this idea has now reached contemporary textbooks of evolutionary biology, most studies of the evolution of host-parasite systems still focus solely on either the host or the parasite, neglecting the role of the other partner. It is important to consider that host and parasite genotypes share control of the epidemiological parameters of their relationship. Moreover, not only the traits of the infection but also the genetic correlations among these and other traits that determine fitness might be controlled by interactions between host and parasite genotypes.
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