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Unravelling the relationship between animal growth and immune response during micro-parasitic infections.
PloS one - 19 Oct 2009
Doeschl-Wilson Andrea B, Brindle Will, Emmans Gerry, Kyriazakis Ilias
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Both host genetic potentials for growth and disease resistance, as well as nutrition are known to affect responses of individuals challenged with micro-parasites, but their interactive effects are difficult to predict from experimental studies alone. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Here, a mathematical model is proposed to explore the hypothesis that a host's response to pathogen challenge largely...
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