No compensatory relationship between the innate and adaptive immune system in wild-living European badgers
The innate immune system provides the primary vertebrate defence system against pathogen invasion, but it is energetically costly and can have immune pathological effects. A previous study in sticklebacks found that intermediate major histocompatibility complex (MHC) diversity correlated with a lowe...
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Public Library of Science
2016
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