Costs and benefits of experimentally induced changes in the allocation of growth versus immune function under differential exposure to ectoparasites.
Ecological immunology has focused on the costs of investment in immunocompetence. However, understanding optimal resource allocation to immune defence requires also identification of its benefits, which are likely to occur only when parasites are abundant.We manipulated the abundance of parasitic he...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-05-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2876032?pdf=render |