Data from: Role of temperature and coinfection in mediating pathogen life-history traits

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dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Helsinki-Laine, Anna-Liisa
dc.contributor.authorLaine, Anna-Liisa
dc.coverage.spatialÅland islands
dc.coverage.spatialFinland
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-29T13:59:40Z
dc.date.issued2018-11-21
dc.date.issued2018-11-21
dc.descriptionUnderstanding processes maintaining variation in pathogen life-history traits is a key challenge in disease biology, and of importance for predicting when and where risks of disease emergence are highest. Pathogens are expected to encounter tremendous levels of variation in their environment – both abiotic and biotic – and this variation may promote maintenance of variation in pathogen populations through space and time. Here, we measure life-history traits of an obligate fungal pathogen at both asexual and sexual stages under both single infection and coinfection along a temperature gradient. We find that temperature had a significant effect on all measured life-history traits while coinfection only had a significant effect on the number of sexual resting structures produced. The effect of temperature on life-history traits was both direct as well as mediated through a genotype-by-temperature interaction. We conclude that pathogen life-history traits vary in their sensitivity to abiotic and biotic variation in the environment.
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.fg25kk0
dc.identifier.urihttps://datakatalogi.helsinki.fi/handle/123456789/4422
dc.rights.licensecc-zero
dc.subjectPlantago lanceolata
dc.subjectAbiotic interactions
dc.subjectOverwintering success
dc.subjectPathogen evolution
dc.subjectPodosphaera plantaginis
dc.subjectlife-history evolution
dc.titleData from: Role of temperature and coinfection in mediating pathogen life-history traits
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