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Mate Finding, Sexual Spore Production, and the Spread of Fungal Plant Parasites

Overview of attention for article published in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, April 2016
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Title
Mate Finding, Sexual Spore Production, and the Spread of Fungal Plant Parasites
Published in
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, April 2016
DOI 10.1007/s11538-016-0157-1
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Authors

Frédéric M. Hamelin, François Castella, Valentin Doli, Benoît Marçais, Virginie Ravigné, Mark A. Lewis

Abstract

Sexual reproduction and dispersal are often coupled in organisms mixing sexual and asexual reproduction, such as fungi. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of mate limitation on the spreading speed of fungal plant parasites. Starting from a simple model with two coupled partial differential equations, we take advantage of the fact that we are interested in the dynamics over large spatial and temporal scales to reduce the model to a single equation. We obtain a simple expression for speed of spread, accounting for both sexual and asexual reproduction. Taking Black Sigatoka disease of banana plants as a case study, the model prediction is in close agreement with the actual spreading speed (100 km per year), whereas a similar model without mate limitation predicts a wave speed one order of magnitude greater. We discuss the implications of these results to control parasites in which sexual reproduction and dispersal are intrinsically coupled.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Norway 1 5%
Unknown 20 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 33%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 19%
Student > Bachelor 3 14%
Unspecified 2 10%
Student > Master 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 3 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 43%
Environmental Science 5 24%
Unspecified 2 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Social Sciences 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 April 2016.
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#14,258,962
of 22,865,319 outputs
Outputs from Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
#632
of 1,098 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#160,842
of 300,949 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
#2
of 13 outputs
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