Ecoimmunology utilizes techniques from traditionally laboratory-based disciplines—for
example, immunology, genomics, proteomics, neuroendocrinology, and cell biology—to …

Infected organisms can resist or tolerate infection, with tolerance of infection defined as
minimizing per-parasite reductions in fitness. Although tolerance is well studied in plants …

The new fields of ecological immunology and disease ecology have begun to merge, and
the classic fields of immunology and epidemiology are beginning to blend with them. This …

Ecoimmunology is the study of the causes and consequences of variation in immunity. This
integrative field builds on and complements comparative immunology by evaluating …

There are at least two reasons to study traits that mediate successful range expansions.
First, dispersers will found new populations and thus impact the distribution and evolution of …

Parasite exposure often causes innate immune activation, resulting in trade‐offs among
physiological processes and strong selection on the parasite. Costs of immune activation …

The tradeoff between reproduction and survival is central to life‐history theory and is thought
to reflect underlying energetic tradeoffs between reproduction and self‐maintenance …

Despite the ubiquity of parasites and pathogens, behavioral and physiological responses to
infection vary widely across individuals. Although such variation can have pronounced …

Selection necessarily acts within the same current and historical demographic framework as
neutral evolutionary processes, and the outcome of the interplay between these forces may …

The acute phase response (APR), coordinated by a complex network of components of the
immune and neuroendocrine systems, plays a key role in early immune defense. This …