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by guscost 2002 days ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873896/

> Trade-offs between different components of parasite fitness provide the dominant conceptual framework for understanding the adaptive evolution of virulence (Alizon et al. 2009).

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> By far, the most widely studied trade-off involves transmission and virulence (Anderson and May, 1982; Frank, 1996; Alizon et al. 2009).