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SUBMITTER: O'Connor EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7015325 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
O'Connor Emily A EA Hasselquist Dennis D Nilsson Jan-Åke JÅ Westerdahl Helena H Cornwallis Charlie K CK
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20200129 1919
Pathogen communities can vary substantially between geographical regions due to different environmental conditions. However, little is known about how host immune systems respond to environmental variation across macro-ecological and evolutionary scales. Here, we select 37 species of songbird that inhabit diverse environments, including African and Palaearctic residents and Afro-Palaearctic migrants, to address how climate and habitat have influenced the evolution of key immune genes, the major ...[more]