▪ Abstract Evolutionary ecology seeks to understand the selective reasons for the design
features of the immune defense, especially with respect to parasitism. The molecular …

The immune system is a life history trait that can be expected to trade off against other life
history traits. Whether or not a trait is considered to be a life history trait has consequences …

This comprehensive, groundbreaking book on the biodiversity of parasites offers a clear and
accessible explanation of how parasite biodiversity provides insight into the history and …

The evolutionary–ecology approach to studying immune defences has generated a number
of hypotheses that help to explain the observed variance in responses. Here, selected topics …

Animals living in temporally dynamic environments experience variation in resource
availability, climate and threat of infection over the course of the year. Thus, to survive and …

Ecological immunology is a rapidly expanding field that examines the causes and
consequences of variation in immune function in the context of evolution and of ecology …

▪ Abstract Immune responses can cause severe disease, despite the role immunity plays in
defending against parasitism. Indeed, immunopathology is a remarkably common cause of …

Recent advances in human life history theory have provided new insights into the potential
selection pressures that were instrumental in the evolution of human and non‐human …

There is an accumulating body of evidence that a decline in immune function with age is
common to most if not all vertebrates. For instance, age-associated thymic involution seems …

Innate, inflammation-based immunity is the first line of vertebrate defence against micro-
organisms. Inflammation relies on a number of cellular and molecular effectors that can …