If you imagine a scenario where an individual had unlimited resources, anything that required some investment wouldn’t be a big deal. It would be able to send some of these resources to achieve the required task and go on about its business without worrying about cutting costs elsewhere. When resources are limited, this changes…. Read more »
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How gene expression can produce specificity
Different parasite strains (of the same species of parasite) are able to infect different individuals (of the same species of host). This is called specificity or can be called a genotype-by-genotype interaction. That is, that some genotypes of parasite are able to infect some genotypes of hosts. In insects, it’s hard to understand how… Read more »