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Arboreality and the evolution of disease resistance in ants

2011-10-01

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1. Parasites are an important selective force for almost all organisms and drive the evolution by hosts of defence mechanisms that are energetically costly. The strength of parasitism will vary between host species according to their specific ecology and life history, and so the optimal investment in costly resistance mechanisms is also likely to vary between host species with differing ecologies. 2. Parasites are...

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Literature Corpus work: e3b998f5-3793-5c55-a0cc-1b903833a508
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2011.01312.x

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