Specific resistance prevents the evolution of general resistance and facilitates disease emergence
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DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14170
Abstract: Host‐shifts, where pathogens jump from an ancestral host to a novel host, can be facilitated or impeded by standing variation in disease resistance, but only if resistance provides broad‐spectrum general resistance against multiple pathogen species.… read more here.
Keywords: specific resistance; evolution general; resistance; general resistance ... See more keywords