Ecological immunology: do sexual attraction and immunity trade‐off through a desaturase?

K Gao, W van der Heide, D Muijderman… - Insect …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Given the limited availability of resources in nature, sexual attractiveness may trade off with
immunocompetence, as the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis (ICHH) posits. In …

Insect hosts are nutritional landscapes navigated by fungal pathogens

HH De Fine Licht, Z Csontos, PJDN Nielsen… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Nutrition can mediate host-pathogen interactions indirectly when specific deficiencies (eg
iron or glutamine) constrain host immune performance. Nutrition can also directly govern …