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TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 116-120Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(01)02203-6
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Parasite resistance is sometimes associated with fitness costs. Costs of resistance are fundamentally important in epidemiology, and in the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions. The cost of resistance is often envisioned as the cost of re-allocating limiting resources to resistance machinery from other traits. This popular paradigm has resulted in a spate of research that assumes a fitness cost to resistance. We comment on this trend and propose a working framework of various resistance means and mechanisms. Within these means and mechanisms, we suggest that many are not likely to incur significant fitness costs.
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