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avirulence hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Infectious diseases

the older belief that parasites inevitably evolve to become harmless to their hosts, later challenged by the trade-off hypothesis.

In infectious diseases, avirulence hypothesis refers to the older belief that parasites inevitably evolve to become harmless to their hosts, later challenged by the trade-off hypothesis. This meaning comes from Alizon (2009) in Journal of Evolutionary Biology.[1]

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  1. Alizon, S., Hurford, A., Mideo, N., & Van Baalen, M. (2009). Virulence evolution and the trade‐off hypothesis: history, current state of affairs and the future. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22(2), 245-259. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01658.x

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