Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Associating with kin selects against disease tolerance
Jason Cosens Walsman, Madalyn Lambe, Jessica F Stephenson
The paper models how kin association influences the evolution of resistance and tolerance in hosts, finding that weak kin ties can promote altruistic resistance in infected hosts, reducing disease.
DOI 10.1101/2023.09.04.555776