Digest: Little evidence exists for a virulence-transmission trade-off

Tobias E. Hector; Isobel Booksmythe

doi:10.1111/evo.13724

Digest: Little evidence exists for a virulence-transmission trade-off

Tobias E. Hector, Isobel Booksmythe

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Research predicting the impact and spread of infectious disease has been heavily influenced by the idea of an evolutionary trade-off between a pathogen's virulence and its transmission rate. In a meta-analysis of the key underlying relationships, Acevedo et al. (2019) highlight the surprising lack of empirical evidence for this influential hypothesis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	858-859
Number of pages	2
Journal	Evolution
Volume	73
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13724
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2019

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