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Digest: Little evidence exists for a virulence‐transmission trade‐off *
Author(s) -
Hector Tobias E.,
Booksmythe Isobel
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/evo.13724
Subject(s) - biology , virulence , transmission (telecommunications) , pathogen , transmission rate , key (lock) , evolutionary biology , genetics , ecology , gene , electrical engineering , engineering
Abstract Research predicting the impact and spread of infectious disease has been heavily influenced by the idea of an evolutionary trade‐off between a pathogen's virulence and its transmission rate. In a meta‐analysis of the key underlying relationships, Acevedo et al. (2019) highlight the surprising lack of empirical evidence for this influential hypothesis.