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Pathogens as Causes of Genetic Diversity in their Host Populations

  • Hamilton W
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (1982), 269-296
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-68635-1_14
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Abstract

Sex is likely to be an adaptation that enables large multicellular long-lived organisms to resist exploitation by specialized smaller shorter-lived organisms — that is, by parasites/pathogens. Antagonistic coadaptation of genotypes between such species tends to...

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Hamilton, W. D. (1982). Pathogens as Causes of Genetic Diversity in their Host Populations. In Population Biology of Infectious Diseases (pp. 269–296). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68635-1_14

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