Introduction. Ecological immunology
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Introduction. Ecological immunology.
An organism's fitness is critically reliant on its immune system to provide protection against parasites and pathogens. The structure of even simple immune systems is surprisingly complex and clearly will have been moulded by the organism's ecology. The aim of this review and the theme issue is to examine the role of different ecological factors on the evolution of immunity. Here, we will provi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0249