How should behavioural ecologists interpret measurements of immunity

By S. Adamo. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Small Animals

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Elevated reproductive effort increases blood parasitaemia and decreases immune function in birds: a meta-regression approach (2009, background): “PHA or sheep red blood cells) relate to natural host–parasite interactions (Adamo 2004; Kennedy & Nager 2006; Martin et al. 2006).”
Feeding by lepidopteran larvae is dangerous: A review of caterpillars’ chemical, physiological, morphological, and behavioral defenses against natural enemies (2012, methodology): “Other measurements rely on quantifying the protein activity of the humoral response by determining the concentration of the enzyme, phenoloxidase, which catalyzes the melanization cascade, or quantifying the activity of antibacterial lysozyme activity (Adamo, 2004a).”
Hematological differences between stingrays at tourist and non-visited sites suggest physiological costs of wildlife tourism. (2009, background): “The interpretations of the hematological parameters requires discretion, because a particular pattern can arise for a variety of reasons (Adamo, 2004; Matson et al., 2006).”
No simple measures for antioxidant status in birds: complexity in inter‐ and intraspecific correlations among circulating antioxidant types (2009, background): “1998; Gill, Alfson & Hau 2007), and the evidence for such patterns among immune variables is now quite strong (Adamo 2004).”
TECHNIQUES FOR STUDYING INTEGRATED IMMUNE FUNCTION IN BIRDS (2006, background): “…immunity and disease resistance on the basis of results from a single immunocompetence assay that examines a single component of the immune system (Lochmiller 1995, Sheldon and Verhulst 1996, Zuk and Johnsen 1998, Norris and Evans 2000, Keil et al. 2001, Sandland and Minchella 2003, Adamo 2004).”
Disease ecology meets ecological immunology: understanding the links between organismal immunity and infection dynamics in natural populations (2011, background): “…in merging ecological immunology and disease ecology SAMPL ING AND INTERPRETAT ION Both ecological immunology and wildlife disease ecology have faced criticism arising from the use and interpretation of immune assays in field studies (e.g. Adamo 2004; Kennedy & Nager 2006; Wobeser 2006).”
Fitness consequences of immune responses: strengthening the empirical framework for ecoimmunology (2011, background): “2010 British Ecological Society, Functional Ecology, 25, 5–17 strength of relationships, it is not clear what trait is being selected upon and what evolutionary response to selection we should expect to see.”
A functional perspective on sexual selection: insights and future prospects (2006, background): “…in Møller et al. 1999; see also Ahtiainen et al. 2004), but despite some intriguing hints at the links between energetics, immunity and ornamentation (e.g. Møller et al. 1996; but see Adamo 2004), no studies to our knowledge have explored these relationships directly within a single system.”
Experimentally induced spermatophore production and immune responses reveal a trade-off in crickets (2010, methodology): “This pathogen has been used to assess the immunocompetence of crickets and other insect species (Adamo et al. 2001; Inglis et al. 2003; Adamo 2004a; Lazzaro et al. 2006; Gershman 2008).”
Decreased immunocompetence in a severely bottlenecked population of an endemic New Zealand bird (2007, result): “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.”
Norepinephrine and octopamine: linking stress and immune function across phyla (2008, background): “More importantly, as Kohut et al. (2005) comments, there is often a lack of association between declines in various immune functions and actual disease resistance (also see Adamo, 2004).”
Physiological condition and immune function in great tits (Parus major L.): sources of variation and trade-offs in relation to growth (2006, background): “2000; Read & Allen 2000) or how immune function relates to specific parasite resistance (Owens & Wilson 1999; Ryder 2003; Adamo 2004) has raised various controversial issues.”
Natural host‐plant quality affects immune defence of an insect herbivore (2007, background): “…a weak negative correlation (among females only) was found between these immune parameters, indicating that measures of immunity and their relation to the actual immune defence of insects are indeed complex, and that different types of immune traits might be used independently (see Adamo, 2004).”