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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 19.
Published in final edited form as: Am Nat. 2013 Dec 16;183(2):E36–E49. doi: 10.1086/674357

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Synchronous parasites frequently transmit better from single infections. Smoothed relative fitness (ratio of cumulative probability transmission for synchronous:asynchronous strain) with increasing competition among merozoites (x axis) and investment in producing transmission stages (y axis). Synchronous infections transmit better in the white/gray areas. Immunity is set to zero (A, a = 0), to target infected red blood cells (B, a = 150, b = 100) or to remove merozoites (C, a = 7200, b = 100). Immunity targeting short-lived merozoites increases the parameter space favorable to synchronous infections.