The Effect Of Sterilizing Diseases On Host Abundance And Distribution Along Environmental Gradients

This study uses a theoretical model to those pathogens which cause sterility can have a large impact on the distribution of their hosts, much more so than diseases that kill their hosts. Vector or sexually transmitted pathogens can also drastically affect host distributions because they may continue to be transmitted efficiently even at low host density.

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Filed under: Fertility on March 8th, 2009