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BiologyFecundityAge structureDiseaseHost (biology)PopulationOffspringDemographyEcologyGeneticsMedicineInternal medicine
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- 36
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- 2
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- 214-239
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- 39
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Viggo Andreasen
(1989).
Disease regulation of age-structured host populations.
Theoretical Population Biology
, 36
(2)
, 214-239.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-5809(89)90031-2
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- DOI
- 10.1016/0040-5809(89)90031-2