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No Evidence for a Trade-Off between Reproductive Investment and Immunity in a Rodent

Life history theory assumes there are trade-offs between competing functions such as reproduction and immunity. Although well studied in birds, studies of the trade-offs between reproduction and immunity in small mammals are scarce. Here we examined whether reduced immunity is a consequence of repro...

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Autores principales: Xu, Yan-Chao, Yang, Deng-Bao, Wang, De-Hua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3359356/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22649512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037182