Senescence of immune defence in Bombus workers
By C. Doums, Y. Moret, E. Benelli, P. Schmid-Hempel. 2002
134 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Abstract 1. Senescence in workers of social insects is a particularly intriguing life‐history trait as the future fitness of workers relies primarily on age‐dependent survival rate. The pattern of senescence of immune defence traits was investigated under laboratory conditions in workers of two bumble bees: Bombus terrestris and B. lucorum.
Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics, Insect Science
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In Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
In Genetics
- A. Córdoba‐Aguilar
- Jorge Contreras-Garduño
- P. Schmid-Hempel
- Jorge Canales-Lazcano
- C. Gerloff
- O. Otti
In Insect Science
Citations in the corpus
- The role of constraints and limitation in driving individual variation in immune response (2011, unknown): “2007), but also in other taxa (Doums et al. 2002; Zerofsky et al. 2005; Kvell et al. 2007).”
- Female preference for male courtship song and its role as a signal of immune function and condition (2006, unknown): “…encapsulate a foreign object by introducing a piece of nylon filament into the body cavity and subsequently measuring its degree of melanization; this is a standard technique for analysing insect immunity (Konig & Schmid-Hempel 1995; Rantala et al. 2000; Doums et al. 2002; Rantala & Kortet 2003).”
- Effects of inbreeding on immune response and body size in a social insect, Bombus terrestris (2003, background): “All test animals were individually marked after hatching and tested for their immune response at 7 days of age (7·02 ± 0·01 days posteclosure, mean ± SE; n = 841, range 6‐8 days) to control for age effects ( Doums et al . 2002 ).”
- Wing pigmentation, immune ability, fat reserves and territorial status in males of the rubyspot damselfly, Hetaerina americana (2006, background): “1999) to the extent that amount of fat (measured as size of body fat) may be a good indicator of immune ability (Doums et al. 2002).”