Social hosts evade predation but have deadlier parasites
J. C. Walsman, M. J. Janecka, D. R. Clark, R. D. Kramp, F. Rovenolt, R. Patrick, R. S. Mohammed, M. Konczal, C. E. Cressler, J. F. Stephenson
The paper shows that predator-induced host social grouping increases parasite transmission, favoring more virulent parasites, and finds that high predation guppy populations have more virulent Gyrodactyus spp. parasites.
bioRxiv · Sep 10, 2021Ecology