Food limitation constrains host immune responses to nematode infections
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Food limitation constrains host immune responses to nematode infections.
Trade-offs in the allocation of finite-energy resources among immunological defences and other physiological processes are believed to influence infection risk and disease severity in food-limited wildlife populations. However, this prediction has received little experimental investigation. Here we test the hypothesis that food limitation impairs the ability of wild field voles (Microtus agrest...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0471