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Pleiotropy promotes the evolution of inducible immune responses in a model of host-pathogen coevolution.
PLoS computational biology - 1 Apr 2023
Martin Reese A, Tate Ann T
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Components of immune systems face significant selective pressure to efficiently use organismal resources, mitigate infection, and resist parasitic manipulation. A theoretically optimal immune defense balances investment in constitutive and inducible immune components depending on the kinds of parasites encountered, but genetic and dynamic constraints can force deviation away from theoretical optima. One such...
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