ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2012
Maternal effects in disease resistance: poor maternal environment increases offspring resistance to an insect virus.
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- Transgenerational effects modulate density-dependent prophylactic resistance to viral infection in a lepidopteran pest.Biology letters · 2015Article
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- A heavy legacy: offspring of malaria-infected mosquitoes show reduced disease resistance.Malaria journal · 2014Article
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Abstract
Maternal effects can be adaptive and because of their intrinsic time delays may have important effects on population dynamics. In vertebrates, and increasingly invertebrates, it is well established that offspring defence is in part determined by maternal parasite exposure. It has also been suggested that there may be indirect maternal effects on immunity mediated by other components of the maternal environment, including density and resource availability. Here, we examine the effect maternal resource availability has on the immunity of offspring in an insect-virus system. We use five different maternal resource levels and examine immunity in the offspring both directly, by challenge with a virus, and by measuring a major component of the immune system, across three offspring environments. Both the direct infection assay and the measure of immunocompetence show clearly that offspring from mothers in poor environments are more resistant to parasites. This may result from life-history optimization of mothers in poor environments, or because the poor environment acts as a cue for higher disease risk in the next generation. This emphasizes the importance of maternal effects on disease resistance, mediated through indirect environmental factors that will have important implications to both the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of host-parasite interactions.
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