Physiological mechanisms mediating costs of immune responses: what can we learn from studies of birds?

D Hasselquist, JÅ Nilsson - Animal Behaviour, 2012 - Elsevier
Activating the immune system has associated fitness costs, both immediate costs in the form
of reduced current reproduction and long-term costs in the form of reduced life span and …

Comparative immunoecology in birds: hypotheses and tests

D Hasselquist - Journal of Ornithology, 2007 - Springer
In this review, I focus on three key questions in avian comparative immunoecology: variation
in immune responses in relation to sex; latitude (and pace-of-life); and the annual cycle. I …

[图书][B] Sex, size and gender roles: evolutionary studies of sexual size dimorphism

DJ Fairbairn, WU Blanckenhorn, T Székely - 2007 - books.google.com
Why do males and females frequently differ so markedly in body size and morphology? Sex,
Size, and Gender Roles is the first book to investigate the genetic, developmental, and …

Linking immune defenses and life history at the levels of the individual and the species

KA Lee - Integrative and comparative biology, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Immune defenses have been suggested to play an important role in mediating life history
trade-offs. Detecting and understanding such trade-offs, however, is complicated by the …

Phytohemagglutinin‐induced skin swelling in birds: histological support for a classic immunoecological technique

LB Martin, P Han, J Lewittes, JR Kuhlman… - Functional …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Measurements of phytohemagglutinin (PHA)‐induced tissue swelling are
arguably the most popular surrogates for immunocompetence in wild birds. It is largely …

[图书][B] Essentials of disease in wild animals

GA Wobeser - 2013 - books.google.com
The interrelationship between wild animal, domestic animals and human health is
appreciated now more than ever before. This is because of the recognition of the …

Is cell–mediated immunity related to the evolution of life-history strategies in birds?

JL Tella, A Scheuerlein… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - royalsocietypublishing.org
According to life–history theory, the development of immune function should be balanced
through evolutionary optimization of the allocation of resources to reproduction and through …

Sexual dimorphism in susceptibility to parasites and cell‐mediated immunity in great tit nestlings

B Tschirren, PS Fitze, H Richner - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Parasites can affect host fitness, provoke host responses, and thereby mediate
host life history evolution. As life history strategies are often sex‐specific, immunological or …

Correlates of oxidative stress in wild kestrel nestlings (Falco tinnunculus)

D Costantini, S Casagrande, S De Filippis… - Journal of Comparative …, 2006 - Springer
The fitness of an organism can be affected by conditions experienced during early
development. In light of the impact that oxidative stress can have on the health and ageing of …

Immune activity in temperate and tropical house sparrows: A common‐garden experiment

LB Martin II, M Pless, J Svoboda, M Wikelski - Ecology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We hypothesized that Neotropical passerines would invest more in costly immune function
relative to north‐temperate passerines, due to differences in their respective life histories …