Johnson, Colin G. (1998) Between-host evolution of mutation-rate and within-host evolution of virulence. In: Proceedings Third German Workshop on Artificial Life. . Harri Deutsch (KAR id:71010)
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Abstract
It has been recently realised that parasite virulence (the harm caused by parasites to their hosts) can be an adaptive trait. Selection for a particular level of virulence can happen either at the level of between-host tradeoffs or as a result of short-sighted within-host competition. This paper describes some simulations which study the effect that modifier genes for changes in mutation rate have on suppressing this short-sighted development of virulence, and investigates the interaction between this and a simplified model of immune clearance.
Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
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Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing |
Depositing User: | Colin Johnson |
Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2018 16:24 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:25 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/71010 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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