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Natural Selection on Individual Variation in Tolerance of Gastrointestinal Nematode Infection

Hosts may mitigate the impact of parasites by two broad strategies: resistance, which limits parasite burden, and tolerance, which limits the fitness or health cost of increasing parasite burden. The degree and causes of variation in both resistance and tolerance are expected to influence host–paras...

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Autores principales: Hayward, Adam D., Nussey, Daniel H., Wilson, Alastair J., Berenos, Camillo, Pilkington, Jill G., Watt, Kathryn A., Pemberton, Josephine M., Graham, Andrea L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4114752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25072883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001917