Simple Summary Sea Turtles have a unique immune system, which evolved over millions of
years in the persistent host-pathogen arms race. As this species occupies a unique …

The reactive scope model was created to address two major unanswered questions in stress
physiology: how and when does the adaptive acute stress response turn into harmful …

Energy is a finite resource required for all physiological processes and must be allocated
efficiently among essential activities to ensure fitness and survival. During the active season …

Background The progressive deregulation of the immune system with age, termed
immunosenescence, has been well studied in mammalian systems, but studies of immune …

Model organisms have long been used to characterize the vertebrate immune system, which
is responsible for protecting the host from mechanical and pathogeninduced injuries …

Parasites impact host fitness and constitute an important selective pressure on the host's life
history. According to parasite‐mediated sexual selection, ornaments are presumed to …

Ecoimmunology affords us the ability to better understand immunological processes through
consideration of external factors, such as the thermal microenvironment. This consideration …

Abstract The big-headed Amazon River turtle, Peltocephalus dumerilianus, is endemic to the
Orinoco and Amazon River basins. It is a food source for local communities, often …

Across the globe, biodiversity is threatened due to anthropogenic changes to the
environment and large numbers of freshwater species, especially turtles, are facing …

In the realm of immunology, the use of reptilian models remains low in comparison to their
mammalian counterparts. Consequently, much of the inner workings of reptilian immunity …