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SCIENCE
卷 290, 期 5494, 页码 1166-1168出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5494.1166
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Parasites do not always harm their hosts because the immune system keeps an infection at bay. Ironically, the cost of using immune defenses could itself reduce host' fitness. This indirect cost of parasitism is often not visible because of compensatory resource intake. Here, workers of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, were challenged with Lipopolysaccharides and micro-latex beads to induce their immune system under starvation (i.e., not allowing compensatory intake). Compared with controls, survival of induced workers was significantly reduced (by 50 to 70%).
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