No compensatory relationship between the innate and adaptive immune system in wild-living European badgers

The innate immune system provides the primary vertebrate defence system against pathogen invasion, but it is energetically costly and can have immune pathological effects. A previous study in sticklebacks found that intermediate major histocompatibility complex (MHC) diversity correlated with a lowe...

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Main Authors: Sin, Yung Wa, Newman, Chris, Dugdale, Hannah L., Buesching, Christina, Mannarelli, Maria-Elena, Annavi, Geetha, Burke, Terry, Macdonald, David W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53388/1/No%20compensatory%20relationship%20between%20the%20innate%20and%20adaptive%20immune%20system.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53388/
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0163773
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