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No compensatory relationship between the innate and adaptive immune system in wild-living European badgers
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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 lower leukocyte coping capacity (LCC), compared to individuals with fewer, or many, MHC alleles. The organization of the MHC genes in mammals, however, differs to the highly duplicated MHC genes in sti...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0163773
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+ Spencer, J
Institution:
University of Oxford
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MPLS
Department:
Zoology
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Ministry of Education Malaysia
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Croucher Foundation
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Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
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- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS One Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- e0163773
- Publication date:
- 2016-10-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-09-14
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1932-6203
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647962
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pubs:647962
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- © 2016 Sin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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