EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF PATHOGEN RESISTANCE AND TOLERANCE
2000/02/01 by B. A. Roy, Bitty A. Roy, J. W. Kirchner +1 · 37 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models #Plant Virus Research Studies
paper · doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00007.x
Abstract
Host organisms can respond to the threat of disease either through resistance defenses (which inhibit or limit infection) or through tolerance strategies (which do not limit infection, but reduce or offset its fitness consequences). Here we show that resistance and tolerance can have fundamentally different evolutionary outcomes, even when they have equivalent short-term benefit for the host. As a gene conferring disease resistance spreads through a population, the incidence of infection declines, reducing the fitness advantage of carrying the resistance gene. Thus genes conferring complete resistance cannot become fixed (i.e., universal) by selection in a host population, and diseases cannot be eliminated solely by natural selection for host resistance. By contrast, as a gene conferring disease tolerance spreads through a population, disease incidence rises, increasing the evolutionary advantage of carrying the tolerance gene. Therefore, any tolerance gene that can invade a host population will tend to be driven to fixation by selection. As predicted, field studies of diverse plant species infected by rust fungi confirm that resistance traits tend to be polymorphic and tolerance traits tend to be fixed. These observations suggest a new mechanism for the evolution of mutualism from parasitism, and they help to explain the ubiquity of disease.
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