Survival for immunity: the price of immune system activation for bumblebee workers.

By Y. Moret, P. Schmid-Hempel. Science, 2000

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

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On the evolutionary ecology of specific immune defence (2003, methodology): “In a nutshell, evolutionary ecologists are interested in the possible fitness costs of immune defence and the tradeoffs with other concurrent needs of the organism within a life-history theory framework [8,9] (Table 1). Such tradeoffs are either investigated as a plastic response of individual organ”
Stress, resource allocation, and mortality (2005, background): “In contrast, many recent studies suggest a cost associated with elevated immune function (Ardia et al., 2003; Kilpimaa et al., 2004; Moret and Schmidt-Hempel, 2000).”
Strong context‐dependent virulence in a host–parasite system: reconciling genetic evidence with theory (2003, background): “Recent work has identified several cases where parasites impact individual host mortality only under stressful conditions (Schaub & Loesch 1989; Jaenike, Benway & Stevens 1995; Brown, Loosli & Schmid-Hempel 2000), presumably because hosts are in such poor condition that they cannot compensate for in”
Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers (2015, background): “Activating the immune response has a metabolic cost; bumblebees increase their food consumption when immune responses are up-regulated (128), and artificially stimulating the immune response by injecting latex beads caused mortality in starving bumblebees but not in those that were well fed (129).”
An analysis of trade‐offs in immune function, body size and development time in the Mediterranean Field Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus (2005, background): “For example, in the bumble-bee Bombus terrestris, increased foraging effort reduces encapsulation response (König & Schmid-Hempel 1995) and experimental activation of the immune system reduces life span during starvation (Moret & Schmid-Hempel 2000).”
Brood size and immunity costs in zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata (2005, background): “Fitness costs of resistance may be expressed in harsh environments only (Kraaijeveld and Godfray 1997, Moret and Schmid-Hempel 2000), but reduced immune responses with increasing brood size indicates parental performance was constrained.”
Malnutrition and Infection: Complex Mechanisms and Global Impacts (2007, background): “Studies in a simple system, involving measurement of the survival of malnourished bumblebee workers, showed that the energy cost of immunity further impairs fi tness [1].”
Female swordtail fish use chemical cues to select well-fed mates (2006, background): “For example, poor nutrition has been associated with inability to contend with environmental fluctuations (Plath et al. 2005), reduced sperm count (Dunn & Moss 1992), poor sperm quality (Izquierdo et al. 2001) and increased susceptibility to disease (Moret & Schmid-Hempel 2000).”
Life cycle complexity, environmental change and the emerging status of salmonid proliferative kidney disease (2011, background): “This seems unlikely since mounting an immune response is energetically costly and immunocompromised hosts are typically those experiencing stress (Moret & Schmid-Hempel, 2000).”
Variation in immune defence as a question of evolutionary ecology (2003, background): “In many cases, the effects are condition dependent (Svensson et al. 1998; Moret & Schmid-Hempel 2000; Råberg et al. 2000).”