Publication Type |
Book Chapter |
School or College |
College of Science |
Department |
Biology |
Creator |
Seger, Jon |
Other Author |
Hamilton, W. D. |
Title |
Parasites and sex |
Date |
1988 |
Description |
Parasites of many kinds have long been recognized as important regulators of population size (e.g., May, 1983b), but only during the last decade or two have they been widely viewed as the protagonists in fast-paced (and long-running) evolutionary thrillers involving subtle features of the biochemistry, anatomy, and behavior of their hosts. On this view, their power as agents of evolution derives from their ubiquity and from the great amounts of mortality they can cause (which are also the properties that make them effective agents of population regulation) and, just as importantly, from their imperfect (but improvable) abilities to defeat the imperfect (but improvable) defenses of their hosts. Thus each party is expected to experience the other as a changeable (and generally worsening) part of its environment. |
Type |
Text |
Publisher |
Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers |
First Page |
176 |
Last Page |
193 |
Subject |
Cost of sex |
Subject LCSH |
Sex; Evolution; Parasites; Parasites -- Evolution; Host-parasite relationships -- Genetic aspects |
Language |
eng |
Bibliographic Citation |
Seger, J., & Hamilton, W. D.(1988). Parasites and sex, in The Evolution of Sex: an Examination of Current Ideas, ed. by Richard E. Michod and Bruce R. Levin, 176-93. |
Rights Management |
(c)Seger, J., & Hamilton, W. D. |
Format Medium |
application/pdf |
Format Extent |
1,910,784 bytes |
Identifier |
ir-main,6080 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s60v8x44 |
Setname |
ir_uspace |
ID |
704569 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60v8x44 |