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Age, pathogen exposure, but not maternal care shape offspring immunity in an insect with facultative family life

BACKGROUND: To optimize their resistance against pathogen infection, individuals are expected to find the right balance between investing into the immune system and other life history traits. In vertebrates, several factors were shown to critically affect the direction of this balance, such as the d...

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Autores principales: Vogelweith, Fanny, Körner, Maximilian, Foitzik, Susanne, Meunier, Joël
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5341370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28270099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-0926-y