Section for Animal Ecology, Department of Biology, Lund University, SE-22362 Lund, Sweden.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2010 May;25(5):267-74. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2009.12.005. Epub 2010 Jan 21.
Victim defence against enemies can be divided into resistance (minimizing successful enemy attacks) and tolerance (minimizing the fitness impact of enemy attacks). Although resistance has a negative effect on enemy fitness, tolerance, by this definition, does not necessarily; the relative importance of resistance and tolerance within a population might therefore affect enemy-victim coevolution. Resistance and tolerance have been distinguished in studies of plant defence, whereas most studies of antagonistic interactions in animals have focused on resistance, neglecting tolerance. We suggest that tolerance is also an important means of defence in animal victim-enemy interactions such as brood parasitism, mating interactions and territoriality. We discuss the potential coevolutionary consequences of tolerance variation in these animal enemy-victim interactions.
受害者防御敌人可以分为抵抗（尽量减少敌人成功的攻击）和容忍（尽量减少敌人攻击对适应度的影响）。虽然抵抗对敌人的适应度有负面影响，但根据这个定义，容忍不一定有；因此，在一个种群中，抵抗和容忍的相对重要性可能会影响到敌人-受害者的共同进化。在植物防御的研究中已经区分了抵抗和容忍，而大多数关于动物拮抗相互作用的研究都集中在抵抗上，忽略了容忍。我们认为，在动物的受害-敌相互作用中，容忍也是一种重要的防御手段，如巢寄生、交配相互作用和领域性。我们讨论了在这些动物的敌-受害相互作用中，容忍变化的潜在共同进化后果。
