Successfully resisting a pathogen is rarely costly in <it>Daphnia magna</it>
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A central hypothesis in the evolutionary ecology of parasitism is that trade-offs exist between resistance to parasites and other fitness components such as fecundity, growth, survival, and predator avoidance, or resistance to other...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-11-01
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Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/355 |