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From the host's point of view: Effects of variation in burying beetle brood care and brood size on the interaction with parasitic mites

The fitness and virulence of parasites is often determined by how many resources they can wrangle out of their hosts. Host defenses that help to keep resources from the parasites will then reduce virulence and parasite fitness. Here, we study whether host brood care and brood size regulation can pro...

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Autores principales: Schedwill, Petra, Paschkewitz, Sophia, Teubner, Heide, Steinmetz, Nadine, Nehring, Volker
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6974135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31961905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228047