Altered within- and between-host transmission under coinfection underpin parasite co-occurrence patterns in the wild.

ABSTRACT: Interactions among parasite species coinfecting the same host individual can have far reaching consequences for parasite ecology and evolution. How these within-host interactions affect epidemics may depend on two non-exclusive mechanisms: parasite growth and reproduction within hosts, and parasite transmission between hosts. Yet, how these two mechanisms operate under coinfection, and how sensitive they are to the composition of the coinfecting parasite community, remains poorly understood. Here, we test the hypothesis that the relationship between within- and between-host transmission of the fungal pathogen, Phomopsis subordinaria, is affected by co-occurring parasites infecting the host plant, Plantago lanceolata. We conducted a field experiment manipulating the parasite c

SUBMITTER: Sallinen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9911512 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature