Temperature effects on teleost immunity in the light of climate change

JP Scharsack, F Franke - Journal of Fish Biology, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Temperature is an important environmental modulator of teleost immune activity.
Susceptibility of teleosts to temperature variation depends on the species‐specific adaptive …

Macroimmunology: The drivers and consequences of spatial patterns in wildlife immune defence

DJ Becker, GF Albery, MK Kessler… - Journal of Animal …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The prevalence and intensity of parasites in wild hosts varies across space and is a key
determinant of infection risk in humans, domestic animals and threatened wildlife. Because …

Altered immune cytokine expression associated with KoRV B infection and season in captive koalas

IE Maher, DP Higgins - PloS one, 2016‏ - journals.plos.org
Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) populations are increasingly vulnerable and one of the main
threats is chlamydial infection. Koala retrovirus (KoRV) has been proposed as an underlying …

Temperature‐mediated shifts in salamander transcriptomic responses to the amphibian‐killing fungus

A Ellison, K Zamudio, K Lips… - Molecular …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Life processes of ectothermic vertebrates are intimately linked to the temperature of their
environment, influencing their metabolism, reproduction, behaviour and immune responses …

The amphibian complement system and chytridiomycosis

KM Rodriguez, J Voyles - Journal of Experimental Zoology Part …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding host immune function and ecoimmunology is increasingly important at a time
when emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) threaten wildlife. One EID that has emerged and …

Genetic diversity and structure in Arapaima gigas populations from Amazon and Araguaia-Tocantins river basins

LS Torati, JB Taggart, ES Varela, J Araripe, S Wehner… - BMC genetics, 2019‏ - Springer
Abstract Background Arapaima gigas (Schinz, 1822) is the largest freshwater scaled fish in
the world, and an emerging species for tropical aquaculture development. Conservation of …

A high-density linkage map and sex-linked markers for the Amazon Tambaqui Colossoma macropomum

ES Varela, M Bekaert, LN Ganeco-Kirschnik, LS Torati… - BMC genomics, 2021‏ - Springer
Abstract Background Tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum, Cuvier, 1818) is the most
economically important native freshwater fish species in Brazil. It can reach a total length of …

Diet in the driving seat: natural diet-immunity-microbiome interactions in wild fish

IM Friberg, JD Taylor, JA Jackson - Frontiers in immunology, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Natural interactions between the diet, microbiome, and immunity are largely unstudied. Here
we employ wild three-spined sticklebacks as a model, combining field observations with …

Hook, line and infection: a guide to culturing parasites, establishing infections and assessing immune responses in the three-spined stickleback

A Stewart, J Jackson, I Barber, C Eizaguirre… - Advances in …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a model organism with an
extremely well-characterized ecology, evolutionary history, behavioural repertoire and …

The use of neopterin as a noninvasive marker in monitoring diseases in wild chimpanzees

T Löhrich, V Behringer, RM Wittig, T Deschner… - EcoHealth, 2018‏ - Springer
Pathogen analysis in wild great apes is both time-and resource-consuming. Therefore, we
examined the potential use of urinary neopterin, a sensitive marker of cell-mediated immune …