From grazing resistance to pathogenesis: the coincidental evolution of virulence factors.
To many pathogenic bacteria, human hosts are an evolutionary dead end. This begs the question what evolutionary forces have shaped their virulence traits. Why are these bacteria so virulent? The coincidental evolution hypothesis suggests that such virulence factors result from adaptation to other ec...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/8238f6a365134b139d0e6f21c83673dd |
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