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Mutualist-Provided Resources Increase Susceptibility to Parasites
Eunnuri Yi, Nova Meng, Corlett W. Wood
The paper tests two hypotheses for why mutualistic microbes increase host susceptibility to parasites and finds that resource availability, not mutualism establishment, drives increased infection.
DOI 10.1101/2023.10.15.562412