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From: Barriers to antigenic escape by pathogens: trade-off between reproductive rate and antigenic mutability

Figure 3

Dynamics of dominance by the common type. The dominance ratio, D, on the y axis is the abundance of the common type divided by the abundance of the rare type, D = I·1/I·2 (see Appendix). Initially, I01 = 0.01, I02 = 0.0001, and S0 = 0.99. Time is measured by the average lifespan of a host. Parameters are the same as the lower right panel of Figure 1, with R0 = 2, γ = 1, and the transmission cost for the rare type of δ/β = 0.06.

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