Variation in immune defence as a question of evolutionary ecology

P Schmid-Hempel - Proceedings of the Royal Society of …, 2003 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The evolutionary–ecology approach to studying immune defences has generated a number
of hypotheses that help to explain the observed variance in responses. Here, selected topics …

Insect immunity: an evolutionary ecology perspective

MT Siva-Jothy, Y Moret, J Rolff - Advances in insect physiology, 2005 - Elsevier
We review recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of insect immune
defence, but do so in a framework defined by the ecological and evolutionary forces that …

[图书][B] Evolutionary parasitology: the integrated study of infections, immunology, ecology, and genetics

P Schmid-Hempel - 2021 - books.google.com
Parasites and infectious diseases are everywhere and represent some of the most potent
forces shaping the natural world. They affect almost every aspect imaginable in the life of …

[图书][B] Mechanisms of life history evolution: the genetics and physiology of life history traits and trade-offs

T Flatt, A Heyland - 2011 - books.google.com
Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by
analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction …

Bateman's principle and immunity

J Rolff - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …, 2002 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis (ICHH) of Folstad and Karter has inspired a
large number of studies that have tried to understand the causal basis of parasite–mediated …

Natural selection has driven the recurrent loss of an immunity gene that protects Drosophila against a major natural parasite

R Arunkumar, SO Zhou, JP Day… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Polymorphisms in immunity genes can have large effects on susceptibility to infection. To
understand the origins of this variation, we have investigated the genetic basis of resistance …

Innate immunity and its evasion and suppression by hymenopteran endoparasitoids

O Schmidt, U Theopold, M Strand - BioEssays, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies suggest that insects use pattern recognition molecules to distinguish
prokaryotic pathogens and fungi from “self” structures. Less understood is how the innate …

A fitness cost of learning ability in Drosophila melanogaster

F Mery, TJ Kawecki - Proceedings of the Royal Society of …, 2003 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Maintenance of substantial genetic variation for learning ability in many animal populations
suggests that learning ability has fitness costs, but there is little empirical evidence for them …

Changes in lifetime immunocompetence in male and female Gryllus texensis (formerly G. integer): trade-offs between immunity and reproduction

SA Adamo, M Jensen, M Younger - Animal Behaviour, 2001 - Elsevier
Determining whether males make energetic trade-offs between immunity and reproduction
remains difficult, partly because of the complexity of the vertebrate immune system. We …

Costs of resistance: genetic correlations and potential trade‐offs in an insect immune system

SC Cotter, LEB Kruuk, K Wilson - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Theory predicts that natural selection will erode additive genetic variation in fitness‐
related traits. However, numerous studies have found considerable heritable variation in …