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Dieter Ebert
Researcher at University of Basel
Publications - 377
Citations - 25183
Dieter Ebert is an academic researcher from University of Basel. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Pasteuria ramosa. The author has an hindex of 79, co-authored 352 publications receiving 22782 citations. Previous affiliations of Dieter Ebert include Imperial College London & University of Oxford.
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Conceptual issues in local adaptation
Tadeusz J. Kawecki,Dieter Ebert +1 more
TL;DR: This paper advocates multifaceted approaches to the study of local adaptation, and stresses the need for experiments explicitly addressing hypotheses about the role of particular ecological and genetic factors that promote or hinder local adaptation.
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Host–parasite ‘Red Queen’ dynamics archived in pond sediment
Ellen Decaestecker,Sabrina Gaba,Sabrina Gaba,Joost A. M. Raeymaekers,Robby Stoks,Liesbeth Van Kerckhoven,Dieter Ebert,Luc De Meester +7 more
TL;DR: From the moment the parasite was first found in the sediments, the authors observed a steady increase in virulence over time, associated with higher fitness of the parasite, and a coevolutionary model based on negative frequency-dependent selection corroborated these experimental results.
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Experimental evolution of parasites
TL;DR: Serial passage experiments show that within-host competition generally drives an increase in a parasite's virulence in a new host, whereas the parasite becomes avirulent to its former host, indicating a trade-off between parasite fitnesses on different hosts.
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Genetic variation in a host-parasite association: potential for coevolution and frequency-dependent selection.
TL;DR: In correspondence analysis, some host clones, although distinguishable with neutral genetic markers, were susceptible to the same set of parasite isolates and thus probably shared resistance genes, consistent with the idea that parasites track specific host genotypes under natural conditions.