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SUMMARY:&quot\;Costs of resistance and costs of infections on the fitness 
 of the mosquito Aedes aegypti infected with the filarial nematode Brugia m
 alayi&quot\; - Cristina Ariani\, Department of Genetics\, University of Ca
 mbridge
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CONTACT:Diane Pearce
DESCRIPTION:The spread of genes that confer insect’s resistance to paras
 ites depends on the fitness costs it may impose. In the presence of the pa
 rasite\, it is likely that the resistant individuals will be favoured over
  susceptible ones.  But in the absence of the parasite a resistant genotyp
 e will only be favoured if  having a mounted immune system is not very cos
 tly.  We used the mosquito Aedes aegypti  and the filarial nematode Brugia
  malayi as a model system to investigate costs of resistance and costs of 
 infection. 
LOCATION:Library\, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour\, Madingley
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