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The evolutionary costs of immunological maintenance and deployment

BACKGROUND: The evolution of disease resistance and immune function may be limited if increased immunocompetence comes at the expense of other fitness-determining traits. Both the maintenance of an immune system and the deployment of an immune response can be costly, and the observed costs may be ev...

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Autores principales: McKean, Kurt A, Yourth, Christopher P, Lazzaro, Brian P, Clark, Andrew G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2292698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18315877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-76