Subsidies of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, not energy subsidies, strengthen immune responses in a terrestrial predator

LJ Kirschman, KA Fritz, HMK Reish… - Freshwater …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
Resource subsides can link aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Animals that emerge from
aquatic ecosystems can transport nutrients that are scarce in terrestrial environments, like …

A dynamic state variable model suggests a stronger effect of age than individual energetic state on reproductive allocation in burying beetles

NY Yang, BD Griffen, JC Creighton, MC Belk - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2024 - Springer
Evolutionary fitness is determined by how an organism allocates energy, or other limited
resources, to reproduction during its lifetime. For iteroparous organisms, two alternative …

Herbicide changes the role of body condition in mating interactions of a wolf spider but courtship is primarily affected by female immunity

JA Godfrey, K Culbertson, M Archdeacon… - Ethology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Animals that live in human‐impacted landscapes experience an onslaught of novel stimuli
that may interfere with natural communication pathways. During mating, this interference …

Immunostimulation of Parasteatoda tepidariorum (Araneae: Theridiidae) in juvenile and adult stages. Immunity reactions to injury with foreign body and Bacillus …

AE Czerwonka, MK Sawadro, J Brożek, AI Babczyńska - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
To assess the immune potential of spiders, in the present study juvenile and adult females of
Parasteatoda tepidariorum were exposed to Bacillus subtilis infection, injury by a nylon …

Infection‐related sexual conflict in mating behaviors of wolf spiders

O Bauer‐Nilsen, M McConnell, G Uetz - Ethology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Resistance to mating by females has been hypothesized as a tactic to assess potential
mates and avoid undesirable ones. Previous studies show infection with the pathogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal changes in immune response and reproductive investment in a biparental beetle

J Kiss, Z Rádai, ME Rosa, A Kosztolányi… - Journal of insect …, 2020 - Elsevier
Immunity and reproduction are physiologically demanding processes, therefore trade-offs
are expected between these life history traits. Furthermore, investments in these traits are …

Cohort splitting from plastic bet-hedging: insights from empirical and theoretical investigations in a wolf spider

Z Rádai - Theoretical Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Bet-hedging strategies help organisms to decrease variance in their fitness in unpredictably
changing environments, by which way lineage fitness can be maximized in the given …

Immune function does not trade‐off with reproductive effort in a semelparous wolf spider with parental care

LJ Kirschman, L Dewey, A Gregory - Physiological Entomology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Trade‐offs between negatively associated traits underlie life history evolution. Immune
function is often involved in life history trade‐offs, because of the energetic and nutritional …

[PDF][PDF] Does Only Egg Sac Protect Spider Embryos From Pathogens? Detection Of Antibacterial Proteins In Embryos of Theridiidae And Lycosidae Representatives

AE Czerwonka, MK Sawadro, AI Babczyńska - 2021 - scholar.archive.org
Cocoons covering spider embryos may constitute a physical barrier, protecting eggs from
microbial infections. The aim of the study was to nd out if the embryos have their own …