Bruns, E., Antonovics, J., Carasso, V., and Hood, M. E.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 2017 (in press)
Microbotryum anther-smut fungi are classically assumed to spread by the movement of insect pollinators.
Long-term demography studies and computer simulations show that pollinator movements are not able to sustain the disease, suggesting other transmission routes.