Fitness costs associated with unnecessary virulence factors and life history traits: evolutionary insights from the potato late blight pathogen <it>Phytophthora infestans</it>
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In gene-for-gene models of plant-pathogen interactions, the existence of fitness costs associated with unnecessary virulence factors still represents an issue, both in evolutionary biology and agricultural sciences. Measuring such co...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-09-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/283 |