毒力的适应性进化：理论预测与实证检验综述
The adaptive evolution of virulence: a review of theoretical predictions and empirical tests.
作者信息
Cressler Clayton E, McLEOD David V, Rozins Carly, VAN DEN Hoogen Josée, Day Troy
机构信息
Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
出版信息
Parasitology. 2016 Jun;143(7):915-930. doi: 10.1017/S003118201500092X. Epub 2015 Aug 25.
Why is it that some parasites cause high levels of host damage (i.e. virulence) whereas others are relatively benign? There are now numerous reviews of virulence evolution in the literature but it is nevertheless still difficult to find a comprehensive treatment of the theory and data on the subject that is easily accessible to non-specialists. Here we attempt to do so by distilling the vast theoretical literature on the topic into a set of relatively few robust predictions. We then provide a comprehensive assessment of the available empirical literature that tests these predictions. Our results show that there have been some notable successes in integrating theory and data but also that theory and empiricism in this field do not 'speak' to each other very well. We offer a few suggestions for how the connection between the two might be improved.
为什么有些寄生虫会对宿主造成严重损害（即具有高毒力），而其他一些则相对无害呢？目前文献中有大量关于毒力进化的综述，但对于非专业人士来说，仍然很难找到一篇易于理解的、全面论述该主题理论与数据的文章。在此，我们试图通过将关于该主题的大量理论文献提炼成相对较少的一组可靠预测来做到这一点。然后，我们对检验这些预测的现有实证文献进行全面评估。我们的结果表明，在整合理论与数据方面已经取得了一些显著成功，但同时也表明该领域的理论与实证研究之间的沟通并不顺畅。我们针对如何改善两者之间的联系提出了一些建议。
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