Ecological immunology: life history trade-offs and immune defense in birds

By K. Norris, Matthew R. Evans. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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In Ecology

1. L. Tummeleht
2. J. Moreno
3. S. Merino
4. G. Tomás
5. T. Piersma
6. J. Morales
7. Dennis Hasselquist
8. Elisa M. Tarlow

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. L. Tummeleht
2. J. Moreno
3. S. Merino
4. Dennis Hasselquist
5. G. Tomás
6. J. Morales
7. M. Rantala
8. T. Piersma

In Genetics

1. M. Rantala
2. R. Kortet
3. S. Adamo
4. L. Saks
5. L. Tummeleht
6. Dennis Hasselquist
7. M. Zuk
8. Andrew M Stoehr

Citations in the corpus

• Detection of serum immunoglobulins in wild birds by direct ELISA: a methodological study to validate the technique in different species using antichicken antibodies (2003, methodology): “Measurements of immune response are becoming routine in many ecological studies ( Norris & Evans 2000 ), requiring the use of simple standardized techniques for estimating levels of activity of different components of the immune system.”
• The Physiology of Life History Trade-Offs in Animals (2001, background): “However, immunocompetence can be measured in numerous ways, and it is important to be aware of the assumptions, limitations, and consequences of various methods (Norris & Evans 2000).”
• How should behavioural ecologists interpret measurements of immunity (2004, background): “Unfortunately, estimating disease resistance is not straightforward, as many researchers have pointed out (e.g. Lochmiller 1995; Siva-Jothy 1995; Sheldon & Verhulst 1996; Zuk 1996; Apanius 1998; Westneat & Birkhead 1998; Norris & Evans 2000; Zuk & Stoehr 2002).”
• Testosterone, dominance signalling and immunosuppression in the house sparrow, Passer domesticus (2003, background): “A final aim of the study was to assess the effects of T and corticosterone on the trade-off between the cellmediated and humoral responses, as differential allocation between these two aspects of immune function could occur and measurement of both is necessary to assess overall immunocompetence (Wei”
• Physiological condition and immune function in great tits (Parus major L.): sources of variation and trade-offs in relation to growth (2006, background): “This species, like several other small hole-nesting passerines belongs to the favourite research objects of animal ecologists, especially in the context of immunological ecology (e.g. Norris & Evans 2000).”
• Comparative immunoecology in birds: hypotheses and tests (2007, background): “…reproductive success (often males) may be more stressed during the mating season, and hence have suppressed immune function, due to exhausting courtship displays, scrutinizing for and fighting off competitors, and development of costly secondary sexual characters (Zuk 1994; Norris and Evans 2000).”
• Interspecific variation in avian blood parasites and haematology associated with urbanization in a desert habitat (2008, background): “Avian blood parasites may play important roles in sexual selection (Hamilton and Zuk 1982, Cox 1989) and reproductive success (Bonier et al. 2007), but how they affect host fitness remains debated (Cox 1989, Weatherhead and Bennett 1991, Norris and Evans 2000).”
• Acute phase responses of passerine birds: characterization and seasonal variation (2007, background): “A central hypothesis of ecological and comparative immunology is that immunological defenses are balanced against their energetic costs to activate and maintain at the expense of competing physiological processes (Sheldon and Verhulst 1996; Norris and Evans 2000) and their relative performance in th”
• Nestling cell-mediated immune response, body mass and hatching date as predictors of local recruitment in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca (2005, background): “Although it suffers from methodological problems and only captures part of immune function (Norris and Evans 2000), it has become popular among field ornithologists because it allows rapid and benign estimation of in vivo T-cell response in wild birds without laboratory studies (Merino et al.”
• Individual quality mediates trade‐offs between reproductive effort and immune function in tree swallows (2005, background): “…are forced experimentally to shift allocation (e.g. energy, nutrients) from immune system self-maintenance to raising offspring, reduced immune function can affect parental survival, thus enforcing a trade-off between the prospects of offspring and parent (Apanius 1998; Norris & Evans 2000).”
• Host condition and host immunity affect parasite fitness in a bird–ectoparasite system (2007, background): “The investment in parasite defence is most likely associated with costs for the host in terms of energy and metabolites, and thus limited to individuals in good condition (e.g. (Sheldon & Verhulst 1996; Norris & Evans 2000).”
• Tree swallows trade off immune function and reproductive effort differently across their range (2005, background): “…thus enforcing a trade-off between the prospects of offspring and parent, and a trade-off between current and future reproduction (Apanius 1998, Norris and Evans 2000, Ardia et al. 2003), as well as reflecting trade-offs among competing life history demands such as molt and incubation (Hanssen…”
• Sexual advertisement and immune function in an arachnid species (Lycosidae) (2004, background): “The term immunocompetence is often used to refer to the ability of the individual’s immune system to resist and control pathogens and parasites (see Norris and Evans, 2000 ).”
• Variation of adult Great Tit Parus major body condition and blood parameters in relation to sex, age, year and season (2009, background): “White blood cell count (WBC) can be indicative of the overall state of the immune function and presence of infection/inflammation (Campbell 1995; Norris and Evans 2000 ).”
• Decreased immunocompetence in a severely bottlenecked population of an endemic New Zealand bird (2007, background): “For example, more resources may have been invested in the humoral immune response than the T-cell-mediated immune response during the autumn period (Westneat & Birkhead, 1998; Norris & Evans, 2000; Adamo, 2004) and this could explain the difference between our two study populations.”
• TECHNIQUES FOR STUDYING INTEGRATED IMMUNE FUNCTION IN BIRDS (2006, background): “In their seminal review, Norris and Evans (2000) contrasted the techniques currently used by ecologists to measure immuno competence with the techniques used by immunol ogists.”