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Social immunity of the family: parental contributions to a public good modulated by brood size

Social immunity refers to any immune defence that benefits others, besides the individual that mounts the response. Since contributions to social immunity are known to be personally costly, they are contributions to a public good. However, individuals vary in their contributions to this public good...

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Autores principales: Duarte, Ana, Cotter, Sheena C., Reavey, Catherine E., Ward, Richard J. S., De Gasperin, Ornela, Kilner, Rebecca M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4750363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26900202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-015-9806-3