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Experimental evolution of specialization by a microsporidian parasite

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Title
Experimental evolution of specialization by a microsporidian parasite
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, May 2010
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-10-159
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Mathieu Legros, Jacob C Koella

Abstract

Evolutionary theory predicts that the pressure for parasites to specialize on one host or to become generalists on a wide range of hosts is driven by the diversity or temporal variability of the host's population and by genetic trade-offs in the adaptation to different hosts. We give experimental evidence for this idea by letting the parasite Brachiola algerae evolve on one of four genetically homogeneous lines of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, on a mixture of the four lines or on an alternating sequence of the four lines. The first regime was expected to lead to specialists, the other two to generalists. After 13 generations, we tested the evolved parasites on each of the four lines of the mosquito.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 2 2%
United Kingdom 2 2%
United States 2 2%
Belgium 2 2%
Germany 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
Unknown 94 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 30%
Researcher 22 21%
Student > Master 13 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 7%
Professor 5 5%
Other 17 16%
Unknown 10 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 71 68%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 5%
Environmental Science 4 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 <1%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 13 12%
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