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Starvation Reveals Maintenance Cost of Humoral Immunity

2010-03-01

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Susceptibility to pathogens and genetic variation in disease resistance is assumed to persist in nature because of the high costs of immunity. Within immunity there are different kinds of costs. Costs of immunological deployment, the costs of mounting an immune response, are measured as a change in fitness following immunological challenge. Maintenance costs of immunity are associated with investments of resources...

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Literature Corpus work: 51eef0b9-6385-5933-992f-9b59cc76d9db
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-009-9078-3

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