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The evolutionary costs of immunological maintenance and deployment.

BMC evolutionary biology - 3 Mar 2008

McKean Kurt A, Yourth Christopher P, Lazzaro Brian P, Clark Andrew G

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BACKGROUND: The evolution of disease resistance and immune function may be limited if increased immunocompetence comes at the expense of other fitness-determining traits. Both the maintenance of an immune system and the deployment of an immune response can be costly, and the observed costs may be...

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PMID: 18315877
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-76
PMCID: PMC2292698

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