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Immune response and survival
2004-01-16
Abstract excerpt
Immune responses have evolved to defend hosts efficiently against the debilitating effects of parasites on host fitness. However, there are relatively few studies of the efficiency of the immune system in terms of providing hosts with an ability to defend themselves against parasitism. A meta‐analysis of the literature on survival of birds in relation to non‐specific immune response to challenge with an antigen or...
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- Literature Corpus work
- bc723c99-6cc8-5b25-a7c6-f631a16eef9a
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.12844.x