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
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/1b19b171f07e4bf69d57e0122d677061
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