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Behavioral Immunity in Insects

Parasites can dramatically reduce the fitness of their hosts, and natural selection should favor defense mechanisms that can protect hosts against disease. Much work has focused on understanding genetic and physiological immunity against parasites, but hosts can also use behaviors to avoid infection...

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Autores principales: de Roode, Jacobus C., Lefèvre, Thierry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26466629
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects3030789