The evolutionary cost of homophily: Social stratification facilitates stable variant coexistence and increased rates of evolution in host-associated pathogens

• Shuanger Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America and Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

  Affiliation Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Davorka Gulisija ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dgulisija@unm.edu (DG); oana@cmu.edu (OC)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Oana Carja

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dgulisija@unm.edu (DG); oana@cmu.edu (OC)

  Affiliation Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4296-2326

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