Graduate student Reese Martin and his doctoral advisor, Ann Tate, assistant professor of biological sciences, used theoretical modeling to identify a potential relationship between genetic pleiotropy and the evolution of immune responses. The pair has authored a paper titled, “Pleiotropy promotes the evolution of inducible immune responses in a model of host-pathogen coevolution,” published in PLOS Computational Biology.
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