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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …