Modulating disease phenotype in a songbird: A role for inflammation in disease tolerance?

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Individual animals vary greatly in their responses to infection, either killing off the invading pathogen (resistance) or minimizing the per-pathogen costs of infection on host fitness (tolerance). Though we understand little about the physiological drivers of tolerance in wild animals, phenotypically, it manifests as milder clinical signs of disease. Here, we use a well-described disease system, finch...

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