Reproduction–immunity trade-offs in insects

RA Schwenke, BP Lazzaro… - Annual review of …, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
Immune defense and reproduction are physiologically and energetically demanding
processes and have been observed to trade off in a diversity of female insects. Increased …

Trade-offs between competition and defense specialists among unicellular planktonic organisms: the “killing the winner” hypothesis revisited

C Winter, T Bouvier, MG Weinbauer… - … and molecular biology …, 2010‏ - journals.asm.org
SUMMARY A trade-off between strategies maximizing growth and minimizing losses
appears to be a fundamental property of evolving biological entities existing in environments …

Defensive symbiosis in the real world–advancing ecological studies of heritable, protective bacteria in aphids and beyond

KM Oliver, AH Smith, JA Russell - Functional ecology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Symbiotic microbes have become increasingly recognized to mediate interactions between
natural enemies and their hosts. The ecologies of these symbioses, however, are poorly …

[کتاب][B] Mechanisms of life history evolution: the genetics and physiology of life history traits and trade-offs

T Flatt, A Heyland - 2011‏ - books.google.com
Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by
analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction …

Coagulation in arthropods: defence, wound closure and healing

U Theopold, O Schmidt, K Söderhäll, MS Dushay - Trends in immunology, 2004‏ - cell.com
Arthropods have open circulatory systems and must seal wounds and keep bacteria from
entering the hemocoel using efficient clotting systems. Enzymes that crosslink the clot …

Costs of CRISPR-Cas-mediated resistance in Streptococcus thermophilus

PF Vale, G Lafforgue, F Gatchitch… - … of the Royal …, 2015‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
CRISPR-Cas is a form of adaptive sequence-specific immunity in microbes. This system
offers unique opportunities for the study of coevolution between bacteria and their viral …

Rapid evolution and ecological host–parasite dynamics

MA Duffy, L Sivars‐Becker - Ecology Letters, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally, the termination of parasite epidemics has been attributed to ecological causes:
namely, the depletion of susceptible hosts as a result of mortality or acquired immunity …

The evolutionary costs of immunological maintenance and deployment

KA McKean, CP Yourth, BP Lazzaro, AG Clark - BMC evolutionary biology, 2008‏ - Springer
Background The evolution of disease resistance and immune function may be limited if
increased immunocompetence comes at the expense of other fitness-determining traits …

Evolution of animal immunity in the light of beneficial symbioses

NM Gerardo, KL Hoang… - … Transactions of the …, 2020‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Immune system processes serve as the backbone of animal defences against pathogens
and thus have evolved under strong selection and coevolutionary dynamics. Most …

Coevolution can reverse predator–prey cycles

MH Cortez, JS Weitz - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014‏ - pnas.org
A hallmark of Lotka–Volterra models, and other ecological models of predator–prey
interactions, is that in predator–prey cycles, peaks in prey abundance precede peaks in …