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An offer you cannot refuse: down-regulation of immunity in response to a pathogen's retaliation threat

According to the Red Queen hypothesis, hosts and pathogens are engaged in an escalating coevolutionary arms race between resistance and virulence. However, the vast majority of symbionts colonize their hosts' mucosal compartments without triggering any immune response, resulting in durable comm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Restif, O
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/PMC4274018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23927686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12209