Evolution of infection avoidance in populations affected by sexually transmitted infections

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/21:00121004 RIV/60077344:_____/21:00559287

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12080-020-00494-3" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12080-020-00494-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12080-020-00494-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12080-020-00494-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Evolution of infection avoidance in populations affected by sexually transmitted infections

Original language description

Infectious diseases affect many populations and it should be natural to avoid contacts with infected individuals to prevent contagion. Recognizability of infected individuals is essential for infection avoidance. In the case of sexually transmitted infections, such avoidance is accomplished by choosing a healthy mating partner. We find that different mating strategies arise as a consequence of evolution of infection avoidance. Considering infection avoidance as host willingness to accept infection risk upon encountering a potential yet infected mating partner, we show that evolutionary bistability occurs: either no avoidance evolves or a degree of avoidance is attained at which the host population ends up disease-free. In the latter case, evolutionary suicide may even occur so that the host population goes extinct. Infection avoidance may also be driven by a degree of infection visibility and therefore thought of as a parasite trait. In that case, parasite crypticity (and hence no avoidance) evolves provided there is no cost on the degree of infection (non-)visibility. Considering a virulence-visibility trade-off leads to parasite crypticity, too, and no virulence. On the other hand, an intermediate degree of infection visibility becomes an evolutionary attractor if a transmissibility-visibility trade-off is adopted, or when the transmissibility-visibility trade-off and the virulence-visibility trade-off act simultaneously.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Theoretical Ecology

ISSN

1874-1738

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

233-246

UT code for WoS article

000605533800002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85099053525