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Selection for brain size impairs innate, but not adaptive immune responses

Both the brain and the immune system are energetically demanding organs, and when natural selection favours increased investment into one, then the size or performance of the other should be reduced. While comparative analyses have attempted to test this potential evolutionary trade-off, the results...

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Autores principales: Kotrschal, Alexander, Kolm, Niclas, Penn, Dustin J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4810857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26962144
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2857