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Life-history strategy defends against disease and may select against physiological resistance

Host ecological traits may limit exposure to infectious disease, thereby generating the wide variation in disease incidence observed between host populations or species. The exclusion of disease by ecological traits may then allow selection to act against physiological defenses when they are costly...

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Autores principales: Gibson, Amanda K, Petit, Elsa, Mena-Ali, Jorge, Oxelman, Bengt, Hood, Michael E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3686206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23789082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.583