It is well accepted that environmental stressors experienced over a one's life, from microbial
infections to chemical toxicants to even psychological stressors, ultimately shape central …

Early‐life environmental conditions can provide a source of individual variation in life‐history
strategies and senescence patterns. Conditions experienced in early life can be quantified …

Understanding individual variation in fitness‐related traits requires separating the
environmental and genetic determinants. Telomeres are protective caps at the ends of …

Chronic stress threatens an individual's capacity to maintain psychological and
physiological homeostasis, but the molecular processes underlying the biological …

Immune defenses are crucial for survival but costly to develop and maintain. Increased
immune investment is therefore hypothesized to trade-off with other life-history traits. Here …

The benefits of dominance may not come without costs, particularly for males. For example,
the “immunocompetence handicap hypothesis” states that males with enhanced mating …

Abstract The Barents–Kara region is significantly affected by climate change, leading to the
rapid degradation of habitats and the infiltration of new potential infectious agents …

Longitudinal studies of various vertebrate populations have demonstrated senescent
declines in reproductive performance and survival probability to be almost ubiquitous …

Gammaherpesvirus reactivation can promote diseases or impair reproduction.
Understanding reactivation patterns and associated risks of different stressors is therefore …

Clostridium perfringens is an important food-borne zoonotic pathogen and a member of the
commensal gut microbiome of many mammals. Predisposing factors such as coinfection …