Schedule and magnitude of reproductive investment under immune trade-offs explains sex differences in immunity
Females and males tend to emphasize different defenses against pathogens: pathogen detection and pathogen killing, respectively. Here, Metcalf and Graham show that these alternate strategies can be explained by immune trade-offs only because the sexes differ in reproductive life history.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06793-y |