{"title":"[C virus of Drosophila and dynamics of host population].","authors":"M Thomas-Orillard, S Legendre","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drosophila melanogaster populations are naturally infected by the Drosophila C virus (DCV). Ingestion of this non-hereditary virus early in the life-cycle has a positive effect. Demographic parameters measured on DCV-free and DCV-infected populations of the same genotype enabled us to compute the population growth rates (multiplication rates) by means of matrix models. The DCV-infected sample had a larger growth rate both for low and high larval densities. Since it is not possible to experiment on a mixed population where DCV-free and DCV-infected individuals live together, a model combining competition and contamination was used. Simulations showed that coexistence of free and infected animals can occur. Such a result leads us to question the relation between population growth rate and fitness.</p>","PeriodicalId":10555,"journal":{"name":"Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie III, Sciences de la vie","volume":"319 7","pages":"615-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie III, Sciences de la vie","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Drosophila melanogaster populations are naturally infected by the Drosophila C virus (DCV). Ingestion of this non-hereditary virus early in the life-cycle has a positive effect. Demographic parameters measured on DCV-free and DCV-infected populations of the same genotype enabled us to compute the population growth rates (multiplication rates) by means of matrix models. The DCV-infected sample had a larger growth rate both for low and high larval densities. Since it is not possible to experiment on a mixed population where DCV-free and DCV-infected individuals live together, a model combining competition and contamination was used. Simulations showed that coexistence of free and infected animals can occur. Such a result leads us to question the relation between population growth rate and fitness.
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