Variation in immune defence as a question of evolutionary ecology

By P. Schmid-Hempel. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2003

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Wing pigmentation, immune ability, fat reserves and territorial status in males of the rubyspot damselfly, Hetaerina americana (2006, background): “A more specific claim is that these traits indicate the immune ability of the individual (Folstad and Karter 1992; Rolff 2002; Schmid-Hempel 2003 ).”
Physiological condition and immune function in great tits (Parus major L.): sources of variation and trade-offs in relation to growth (2006, background): “Assuming that immune function is resource-limited, it has been expected to compete with other important functions of an organism for the total resource pool, giving rise to trade-offs in resource allocation (reviewed in Sheldon & Verhulst 1996; Zuk & Stoehr 2002; Schmid-Hempel 2003).”
Maternal care provides antifungal protection to eggs in the European earwig (2014, background): “, eusocial insect colonies) is that the close genetic relatedness between group members may render them susceptible to the same pathogens (Schmid-Hempel 2003; Cremer et al. 2007).”
Evolutionary Causes and Consequences of Immunopathology (2005, background): “Most work in ecological immunology focuses on whether costs of immunity can explain heterogeneity among hosts in their level of defense (reviewed by Schmid-Hempel 2003).”
Temperature extremes and butterfly fitness: conflicting evidence from life history and immune function (2011, background): “…the last years knowledge on the important contribution of immune defence to individual fitness has expanded considerably (Rolff & Siva-Jothy, 2002; Schmid-Hempel, 2003, 2005; Stoehr, 2007), and responses to stressors may be different for traits such as body size and immune function (Rolff et al.,…”
A trade-off between two resource-demanding functions: post-nuptial moult and immunity during reproduction in male pied flycatchers (2004, background): “This competition for resources between moult and immunity would add a further trade-off to the lifehistory implications of immunity (Sheldon & Verhulst 1996; Schmid-Hempel 2002).”
An analysis of trade‐offs in immune function, body size and development time in the Mediterranean Field Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus (2005, background): “An area of very active research in evolutionary biology is that of immune ecology, especially the importance of trade-offs between immune function and other lifehistory traits (for reviews see e.g. Zuk & Stoehr 2002; Schmid-Hempel 2003).”
Insect immune priming: ecology and experimental evidences (2016, background): “Evolutionary biologists have revealed that the immune response could vary between organisms and species as a result of evolutionary costs (negative impacts on fitness), which may limit immune response performance (Rolff & Siva-Jothy, 2003; Schmid-Hempel, 2003, 2005a).”
Natural host‐plant quality affects immune defence of an insect herbivore (2007, background): “The strength of the insect immune defence is at least in part genetically determined and it is also affected by many other factors, such as food quantity and quality, population density, and sex (Kraaijeveld et al., 2002; Zuk & Stoehr, 2002; Schmid-Hempel, 2003, 2005).”
Brood size and immunity costs in zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata (2005, background): “However, independent support for the significance of the costs of immune system maintenance comes from artificial selection experiments on immune function, which reported negative associations between immune function and fitness related parameters (Verhulst et al. 1999, Schmid-Hempel 2003 ).”
Increase in the constitutive innate humoral immune system in Leach's Storm‐Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) chicks is negatively correlated with growth rate (2005, background): “Immune function is increasingly seen in the context of life-history trade-offs (Sheldon & Verhulst 1996; Norris & Evans 2000; Martin et al. 2001; Tella, Scheuerlein & Ricklefs 2002; Schmid-Hempel 2003).”