A widespread tenet is that evolution of pathogens maximises their basic reproduction ratio,
R 0. The breakdown of this principle is typically discussed as exception. Here, we argue that …

Potential interactions among co-circulating viral strains in host populations are often
overlooked in the study of virus transmission. However, these interactions probably shape …

The aim of these notes is to illustrate, largely by way of examples, how standard ecological
models can be put into an evolutionary perspective in order to gain insight in the role of …

Multihost parasites can infect different types of hosts or even different host species.
Epidemiological models have shown the importance of the diversity of potential hosts for …

An aim of some vaccination programmes is to reduce the prevalence of an infectious
disease and ultimately to eradicate it. We show that eradication success depends on the …

The time evolution of the influenza A virus is linked to a nonfixed landscape driven by
interactions between hosts and competing influenza strains. Herd-immunity, cross-immunity …

Due to the importance of infectious disease, there is a large body of theory on the evolution
of either hosts or, more commonly, parasites. Here we present a fully coevolutionary model …

2.1 Background Community ecologists grapple with the structure and dynamics of
ensembles of species that live in the same habitat, landscape, or region, and so potentially …

Although the dynamics of transmission play an important role in the occurrence of
intramammary infection (IMI), they have not been considered in previous models used to …

We present a general host–parasite model that unifies previous theory by investigating the
coevolution of virulence, resistance, and tolerance, with respect to multiple physiological …