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Insects fight low-dose infections with terminal investment, not innate immunity

2025-04-08

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Though the innate immune system is considered to be the primary defence promoting survival against pathogenic microbes, non-immunological strategies may provide cost-effective responses against ubiquitous low-dose infections. However, research using model systems has yet to develop a framework for systematically varying topical exposure doses, much less for examining how hosts mitigate the fitness costs associated...

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Literature Corpus work: 05494087-3686-5b54-b639-6161e925b067
DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.03.646978

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