Inducible defence and the social evolution of herd immunity
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Inducible defence and the social evolution of herd immunity.
Many organisms vary their level of investment in defensive characters. Protective traits may be induced upon exposure to predators or parasites. In a similar way, humans vaccinate in response to threatening epidemics. When most group members defend themselves, epidemics die out quickly because parasites cannot spread. A high level of group (herd) immunity is therefore beneficial to the group. T...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0519