Schedule and magnitude of reproductive investment under immune trade-offs explains sex differences in immunity

Females and males tend to emphasize different defenses against pathogens: pathogen detection and pathogen killing, respectively. Here, Metcalf and Graham show that these alternate strategies can be explained by immune trade-offs only because the sexes differ in reproductive life history.

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Autores principales:	C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Andrea L. Graham
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2018
Materias:	Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/1b19b171f07e4bf69d57e0122d677061
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1b19b171f07e4bf69d57e0122d6770612021-12-02T15:34:20ZSchedule and magnitude of reproductive investment under immune trade-offs explains sex differences in immunity10.1038/s41467-018-06793-y2041-1723https://doaj.org/article/1b19b171f07e4bf69d57e0122d6770612018-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06793-yhttps://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723Females and males tend to emphasize different defenses against pathogens: pathogen detection and pathogen killing, respectively. Here, Metcalf and Graham show that these alternate strategies can be explained by immune trade-offs only because the sexes differ in reproductive life history.C. Jessica E. MetcalfAndrea L. GrahamNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2018)
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title	Schedule and magnitude of reproductive investment under immune trade-offs explains sex differences in immunity
title_short	Schedule and magnitude of reproductive investment under immune trade-offs explains sex differences in immunity
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Schedule and magnitude of reproductive investment under immune trade-offs explains sex differences in immunity

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