Host-parasite co-evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences
Because parasite reproduction takes place within the host and because hosts carry parasites with only one genotype at the M- ... First, host reproduction occurs. Mating is random and inheritance is Mendelian. Within a transient diploid phase, recombination ... Because sexual and asexual reproduction are equivalent in parasites in our model, recombination did not affect mutation rate ... Indeed, theoretical work has shown that increased allocation to sexual reproduction is advantageous in hosts when parasites are ...