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Interference competition influences virulence in Metarhizium coinfections

Coinfections are common in a nature and often involve competition among coinfecting parasites to extract resources from the host. As a consequence of this competition, parasites can face trade-offs between investing in competition with other parasites and exploiting the host for their own growth and transmission. Such within-host interactions among parasites can either increase or decrease…

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