Low virulence evolves as a bet-hedging strategy in fluctuating environment
Anne Nguyen, Etienne Rajon, David Fouchet, Dominique Pontier, Jorge Eduardo Rabinovich, Sébastien Gourbiére, Frédéric Menu
The paper shows that environmental stochasticity reduces parasite virulence as a bet-hedging strategy, using Chagas disease as an example.
bioRxiv · Dec 9, 2015 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology