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Fluctuating temperature effects

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Relationships between hosts, parasites and pathogens may be strongly affected by changing patterns of temperature variation.

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  1. Ross A. Alford is in the School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia,

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