Abstract:In nature, hosts face shifting patterns of parasite exposure and life history trade-offs as they develop from birth to old age. As a result, the net fitness benefit of immunological investment can change dramatically from one life stage to the next. Previous work has revealed a puzzling diversity of relative immune investment patterns among juvenile and adult stages, and it is not clear whether lessons learned from one particular population or species can be generalized to wild populations, after accounting fo… Show more
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