Host community structure and the maintenance of pathogen diversity.

Journal article

Community structure has been widely identified as a feature of many real-world networks. It has been shown that the antigenic diversity of a pathogen population can be significantly affected by the contact network of its hosts; however, the effects of community structure have not yet been explored. Here, we examine the congruence between patterns of antigenic diversity in pathogen populations in neighbouring communities, using both a deterministic metapopulation model and individual-based for...

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Authors: Buckee, C; Danon, L; Gupta, S

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society
• Volume: 274
• Issue: 1619
• Pages: 1715-1721
• Publication date: 2007-07-01
• DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0415
• EISSN: 1471-2954
• ISSN: 0962-8452
• Language: English
• Keywords: Demography; Ecosystem; Genetic Variation; Antigens; Genetics, Population; Computer Simulation; Models, Biological