Population structure and the co-evolution between social parasites and their hosts

DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.5623

Brandt, Miriam ; Fischer-Blass, Birgit ; Heinze, Jürgen ; Foitzik, Susanne

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Abstract

Co-evolutionary trajectories of host-parasite interactions are strongly affected by the antagonists' evolutionary potential, which in turn depends on population sizes as well as levels of recombination, mutation, and gene flow. Under similar selection pressures, the opponent with the higher evolutionary rate is expected to lead the co-evolutionary arms race and to develop local adaptations. Here, ...