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Wildebeest or malaria parasite -- same rules determine number of offspring
01-14-2008 · EurekAlert!New research published today (Jan. 15) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Fellow shows that the same community ecology principles that determine how different animal species on the savannah affect each other's population sizes through competition for food and hunting by predators also affect parasite species interacting within the microcosm of a single host. The research has implications for treating many human and animal infections.
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