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MHC genes and oxidative stress in sticklebacks: an immuno-ecological approach.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Jun 2006
Kurtz Joachim, Wegner K Mathias, Kalbe Martin, Reusch Thorsten B H, Schaschl Helmut, Hasselquist Dennis, Milinski Manfred
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Individual variation in the susceptibility to infection may result from the varying ability of hosts to specifically recognize different parasite strains. Alternatively, there could be individual host differences in fitness costs of immune defence. Although, these two explanations are not mutually exclusive, they have so far been treated in separate experimental approaches. To analyse potential relationships, we...
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