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Sex-specific consequences of an induced immune response on reproduction in a moth

BACKGROUND: Immune response induction benefits insects in combatting infection by pathogens. However, organisms have a limited amount of resources available and face the dilemma of partitioning resources between immunity and other life-history traits. Since males and females differ in their life his...

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Autores principales: Barthel, Andrea, Staudacher, Heike, Schmaltz, Antje, Heckel, David G., Groot, Astrid T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26672978
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0562-3