Phylogeny affects host's weight, immune response and parasitism in damselflies and dragonflies
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Phylogeny affects host's weight, immune response and parasitism in damselflies and dragonflies
Host-parasite interactions are an intriguing part of ecology, and understanding how hosts are able to withstand parasitic attacks, e.g. by allocating resources to immune defence, is important. Damselflies and dragonflies show a variety of parasitism patterns, but large-scale comparative immune defence studies are rare, and it is difficult to say what the interplay is between their immune defenc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Royal Society Open Science
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2054-5703
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160421