Principles of ecological immunology

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 113-121

  Sadd, Ben M ^a   Schmid Hempel, Paul ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Costs of immunity; Ecological immunology; Immune evasion; Plasticity; Specificity; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350344715     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2008.00057.x     Document Type: Article

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