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The cost of resistance hypothesis predicts that resistant hosts pay a cost for being resistant in the absence of the parasite [16], [18].

The cost of resistance hypothesis predicts that resistant genotypes pay a cost of being resistant and are less fit in the absence of parasites.

By applying the modified matching allele model to the additive resistance hypothesis, we theorize that susceptible parents contribute susceptibility alleles and resistant parents contribute resistance alleles, and their neoallopolyploids contain novel combinations of resistance and susceptibility factors.

Patterns of plant invasion in Europe offer little support for the biotic resistance hypothesis (e.g. [44, 53, 54]).

There is a particular lack of support for the biotic resistance hypothesis when terrestrial animals are considered (see [52] and references therein).

The cumulative new knowledge favors a unified central leptin insufficiency syndrome over the, in vogue, central resistance hypothesis to explain the global adverse impact of deficient leptin signaling in the brain.

Perhaps the most influential has been the biotic resistance hypothesis, an early champion of which was Charles Elton, often referred to as the scientist who founded the field of invasion biology (e.g. [19]; although we note that Charles Darwin [40] and other biologists had already written about the spread and impacts of non-native species, [11, 41]).

Contrary to what would be predicted from the biotic resistance hypothesis, it is not easier for introduced mammals to establish in countries with high human impact, but these countries host more non-native mammals than other countries because they have received more species introductions [52].

Both the cost of resistance hypothesis and the inbreeding-infection hypothesis assume that resistance has a genetic basis.

The enemy release hypothesis and the biotic resistance hypothesis are two prominent and divergent theories addressing how interactions between herbivores and plants may exacerbate or retard the establishment and spread of non-native plants.

The biotic resistance hypothesis suggests that native species function as natural enemies (consumers, pathogens, competitors) of non-native invaders and suppress their establishment and spread in the new habitat [6], [8], [9].