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SUBMITTER: Taylor CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6767599 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Taylor Christopher H CH Young Stuart S Fenn Jonathan J Lamb Angela L AL Lowe Ann E AE Poulin Benoit B MacColl Andrew D C ADC Bradley Janette E JE
Functional ecology 20190522 8
The ability, propensity and need to mount an immune response vary both among individuals and within a single individual over time.A wide array of parameters has been found to influence immune state in carefully controlled experiments, but we understand much less about which of these parameters are important in determining immune state in wild populations.Diet can influence immune responses, for example when nutrient availability is limited. We therefore predict that natural dietary variation wil ...[more]