Decomposing health: tolerance and resistance to parasites in animals.

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on January 12, 2009

Authors

Lars Råberg1, Andrea L Graham, Andrew F Read

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1: Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Ecology Building, 223 63 Lund, Sweden. lars.raberg@zooekol.lu.se

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