Life-history strategy defends against disease and may select against physiological resistance

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1741-1750

  Gibson, Amanda K ^a,b   Petit, Elsa ^a   Mena Ali, Jorge ^a,c   Oxelman, Bengt ^d   Hood, Michael E ^a  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Annual; Disease resistance; Microbotryum; Perennial; Silene

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885853466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.583     Document Type: Article

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