dc.contributor.author | Best, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Ashby, B | |
dc.contributor.author | White, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Bowers, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Buckling, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Koskella, B | |
dc.contributor.author | Boots, M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-19T08:25:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-11-15 | |
dc.description.abstract | Fluctuating selection driven by coevolution between hosts and parasites is important for the generation of host and parasite diversity across space and time. Theory has focused primarily on infection genetics, with highly specific 'matching-allele' frameworks more likely to generate fluctuating selection dynamics (FSD) than 'gene-for-gene' (generalist-specialist) frameworks. However, the environment, ecological feedbacks and life-history characteristics may all play a role in determining when FSD occurs. Here, we develop eco-evolutionary models with explicit ecological dynamics to explore the ecological, epidemiological and host life-history drivers of FSD. Our key result is to demonstrate for the first time, to our knowledge, that specificity between hosts and parasites is not required to generate FSD. Furthermore, highly specific host-parasite interactions produce unstable, less robust stochastic fluctuations in contrast to interactions that lack specificity altogether or those that vary from generalist to specialist, which produce predictable limit cycles. Given the ubiquity of ecological feedbacks and the variation in the nature of specificity in host-parasite interactions, our work emphasizes the underestimated potential for host-parasite coevolution to generate fluctuating selection. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | A.Be. was funded by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship,
and this work was supported by NERC grants NE/J009784/1 and
NE/N014979/1. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 284: 20171615 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rspb.2017.1615 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/32493 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Royal Society | en_GB |
dc.relation.source | Cþþ code used for the simulations can be found in the
electronic supplementary material. | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29093222 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2017 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original
author and source are credited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | coevolution | en_GB |
dc.subject | fluctuating selection | en_GB |
dc.subject | infectious disease | en_GB |
dc.subject | specificity | en_GB |
dc.title | Host-parasite fluctuating selection in the absence of specificity | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-19T08:25:24Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0962-8452 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | en_GB |