Differential tolerance to direct and indirect density-dependent costs of viral infection in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Population density and costs of parasite infection may condition the capacity of organisms to grow, survive and reproduce, i.e. their competitive ability. In host-parasite systems there are different competitive interactions: among uninfected hosts, among infected hosts, and between uninfected and i...

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Main Authors: Israel Pagán, Carlos Alonso-Blanco, Fernando García-Arenal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-07-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2712083?pdf=render