Spatial parasite transmission, drug resistance, and the spread of rare genes

AUTOR(ES)

Cornell, S. J.

FONTE

National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

The transmission of many parasitic worms involves aggregated movement between hosts of “packets” of infectious larvae. We use a generic metapopulation model to show that this aggregation naturally promotes the preferential spread of rare recessive genes, compared with the expectations of traditional nonspatial models. A more biologically realistic model also demonstrates that this effect could explain the rapid observed spread of recessive or weakly dominant drug-resistant genotypes in nematode parasites of sheep. This promotion of a recessive trait arises from a novel mechanism of inbreeding arising from the metapopulation dynamics of transmission.

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