Why is it that some parasites cause high levels of host damage (ie virulence) whereas others
are relatively benign? There are now numerous reviews of virulence evolution in the …

Several evolutionary processes influence virulence, the amount of damage a parasite
causes to its host. For example, parasites are favored to exploit their hosts prudently to …

This book deals with the ecological effect a species can have when it moves into an
environment that it has not previously occupied (commonly referred to as an'Invasion'). It is …

Why do parasites harm their hosts? Intuition suggests that parasites should evolve to be
benign whenever the host is needed for transmission. Yet a growing theoretical literature …

While for pathogen clones singly occupying a host it may pay to adopt a relatively avirulent
host exploitation strategy, clones sharing a host have a conflict of interest that favors more …

Nested models (also called embedded models) explicitly link dynamical processes that
occur at different scales. Recently there has been considerable interest in linking within-and …

Why are some diseases more virulent than others? Vector–borne diseases such as malaria
and water–borne diseases such as cholera are generally more virulent than diseases …

In recent years, population and evolutionary biologists have questioned the traditional view
that parasite-mediated morbidity and mortality¿ virulence¿ is a primitive character and an …

We examine effects of the vertebrate immune system on the evolution and maintenance of
virulence of microparasites (viruses, bacteria, or unicellular eukaryotes). We employ a …

In this study we introduce a mechanistic framework for modeling host–parasite coevolution
using a nested modeling approach. The first step in this approach is to construct a …