In vivo microbial coevolution favours host protection and plastic downregulation of immunity
Microbiota can protect their hosts from infection. The short timescales in which microbes can evolve presents the possibility that ‘protective microbes’ can take-over from the immune system of longer-lived hosts in the coevolutionary race against pathogens. Here, we found that coevolution between a...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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