Condition dependence of pheromones and immune function in the grain beetle Tenebrio molitor

By M. Rantala, R. Kortet, J. Kotiaho, A. Vainikka, Jukka Suhonen. 2003

183 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Genetics, Insect Science

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Citations in the corpus

An analysis of trade‐offs in immune function, body size and development time in the Mediterranean Field Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus (2005, unknown): “…to measure the magnitude of the encapsulation response to a novel and standardized antigen such as a nylon monofilament (e.g. Köning & Schmid-Hempel 1995; Rantala et al. 2000, 2002, 2003a; Rantala, Kortet & Vainikka 2003b; Rantala & Kortet 2003, 2004; Ahtiainen et al. 2004; Koskimäki et al. 2004).”
Links between male quality, male chemical signals, and female mate choice in Iberian Rock Lizards (2006, unknown): “…different individuals suggest that parasitic infections and health state might affect the information conveyed by chemical signals in rodents (e.g. Kavaliers & Colwell 1995; Penn & Potts 1998; Zala, Potts & Penn 2004), beetles (Rantala et al. 2002, 2003), and other lizards (López & Martín 2005a).”
The scent of dominance: female field crickets use odour to predict the outcome of male competition (2005, unknown): “…hormones play an important determining role in dominance hierarchies among social insects (review in Hartfelder 2000), and juvenile hormone type III is associated with pheromone production in cockroaches (e.g., Sreng et al. 1999), fruit flies (Teal et al. 2000) and beetles (Rantala et al. 2003b).”
Plant defenses and population fluctuations of forest defoliators : mechanism-based scenarios (2005, unknown): “…are starvation as such, deprivation of food, known to lead rapidly to declining immune defense (Fellowes et al. 1999, Siva-Jothy & Thompson 2002, Rantala et al. 2003); decline in sunspotrelated UV-B; the emergence of parasitoids able to block the encapsulation/melanization process by means of…”
Phenoloxidase: a key component of the insect immune system (2012, unknown): “For example, the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor L., and the damselfly Hetaerina americana Fabricius that were fed ad libitum showed higher PO values than males that were non-fed (Siva-Jothy & Thompson, 2002; Rantala et al., 2003; González-Tokman et al., 2011).”