Question

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-How is pathogen virulence evolutionary shaped by host spatial and/or social structure? How does human mobility select for virulence?

-If a paradite/pathogen is co-adapted with a particular host genotype, and not other genotypes, how is virulence affected?

-How does the ecological concept competition impact the virulence evolution for multiple pathogen strains in one host?

Answer 1

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Social structure is of vital importance to the transmission of pathogens so it shapes pathogen virulance evolutio and the reason is because social structure changes when mating or when dispersal occurs and this changes the contact among individuals of a population.

with respect to humans it is known that spatial spread of human infectious diseases change when people are travelling in space, Human travel affect the dinamics of the pathogen because movement introduce pathogens inside a population that maybe it was susceptible to the pathogen, even more than the infected prior popñulation. causing an outrbreak,