Dwindling resources might be expected to induce a gradual decline in immune function.
However, food limitation has complex and seemingly paradoxical effects on the immune …

Mounting an immune response consumes resources, which should lead to increased
feeding. However, activating the immune system reduces feeding (ie illness-induced …

Immune defences are an important component of fitness. Yet susceptibility to pathogens is
common, suggesting the presence of ecological and evolutionary limitations on immune …

Nutrition structures ecology and evolution across all scales of biological organization. It is
well known that nutrition can have direct effects on performance and fitness, but indirect …

An explosion of data has provided detailed information about organisms at the molecular
level. For some traits, this information can accurately predict phenotype. However …

Although predator exposure increases the risk of wound infections, it typically induces
immunosuppression. A number of non-mutually exclusive hypotheses have been put …

Advances in ecological immunity have illustrated that, like vertebrates, insects exhibit
adaptive immunity, including induced changes in feeding behavior that aid the immune …

Given the barrage of natural enemies that lepidopterans face during their larval stage, the
immune response should provide reliable, effective defense against pathogens, parasites …

A rapidly advancing area of ecological immunology concerns the effects of diet on animals'
immunological responses to parasites and pathogens. Here, we focus on diet-mediated …

Some herbivorous insects sequester chemicals from their host plants, which can serve as a
defense against predators. However, sequestration can also be costly, impacting …