Leveraging natural variation to study fitness costs and trade-offs in host immunity
During health and infection, hosts allocate energy to growth, maintenance, defense, and reproduction. Current theory in ecological immunology suggests that mounting an energetically-costly defense will lead to trade-offs against host fitness. In this thesis, we used lab-adapted and wild Caenorhabdit...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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