Abstract:Abstract.One of the great challenges in ecology and evolutionary biology is to explain disease, whether caused by infectious agents such as parasites and pathogens, or by the deterioration or transformation of cellular behavior and function, a prime example of the latter being cancer. Decades of observation and research suggest that successfully treating disease requires insights into how the environment mediates the interactions between disease causing agents (DCAs) and diseased individuals. A major finding i… Show more
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