Article
Genetic covariation between effectiveness and cost of defence in aphids.
Biology letters - 23 Dec 2008
Vorburger Christoph, Gouskov Alexandre, von Burg Simone
Abstract excerpt
Ecological immunology distinguishes between the long-term evolutionary costs of possessing defences against parasites and the short-term costs of using them. Evolutionary biologists have typically focused on the former in the search for constraints on the evolution of resistance. Here, we show in the peach-potato aphid, Myzus persicae, that short-term costs may be of equal evolutionary importance. Survivors of...
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