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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Main Authors: Vale Pedro F, Labbé Pierrick, Little Tom J
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-11-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/355