CJ Jenkins PhD Genetics of Host-Parasite Coevolution

Host Genotypes

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Potamopygrus antipodarum

Microphallus sp.

Honey bees

Deformed Wing Virus

INFECTION!

RESISTANT!INFECTION!

RESISTANT!

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Infection and resistance drive

host-parasite coevolution

The associated genotypic specificity

determines the outcome of coevolution

We know very little about how this genotypic specificity occurs in natural populations