Invertebrate ecological immunology

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5632, 2003, Pages 472-475

  Rolff, J ^a   Siva Jothy, M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY;

INVERTEBRATES;

IMMUNOLOGY;

IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; INVERTEBRATE;

ALLELE; ANT; CROSS RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUPERINFECTION;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HORMONES; IMMUNITY; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INVERTEBRATES; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041865227     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1080623     Document Type: Review

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60. We are grateful to J. Kurtz, M. Fellowes, Y. Moret, S. Armitage, K. Reinhardt, D. Coltman, and an anonymous reviewer for comments that greatly improved the manuscript. Thanks also to G. D. D. Hurst for allowing access to a paper in press. We acknowledge the European Science Foundation, their support for the workshop that stimulated this manuscript, and the participants at that workshop. J.R. was supported by a Marie Curie Fellowship, and M.T.S-J was supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council grant GR3/12121.