Immunity can impose a reproduction-survival tradeoff on human malaria parasites
Denis Patterson, Lauren M. Childs, Isaac J. Stopard, Nakul Chitnis, Sergio Serrato-Arroyo, Megan A. Greischar
This study shows that adaptive immunity imposes a survival-reproduction tradeoff on malaria parasites, limiting their ability to evolve faster within-host multiplication.
Evolution · Nov 25, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology