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Adaptation to a benign environment A can pre-adapt an opportunistic pathogen for virulent growth in V if there is a significant positive association between the properties of environments A and V (i.e., if fast growth in A, g, is correlated with fast growth in V, r, or cov(g,r) > 0).
