ReviewInsects2012
Influences of Plant Traits on Immune Responses of Specialist and Generalist Herbivores.
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- High Quality Diet Enhances Immune Response and Affects Gene Expression During Viral Infection in an Insect Herbivore.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Disease from leaves to landscapes: viral hotspots are determined by spatial arrangement and phytochemistry of host plants in specialist caterpillars.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Mixtures of Milkweed Cardenolides Protect Monarch Butterflies against Parasites.Journal of chemical ecology · 2024Article
- No-cost meals might not exist for insects feeding on toxic plants.Biology open · 2023Review
- Tomato Chemical Defenses Intensify Corn Earworm (Helicoverpa zea) Mortality from Opportunistic Bacterial Pathogens.Journal of chemical ecology · 2023Article
- Effects of Host Plants on Development and Immunity of a Generalist Insect Herbivore.Journal of chemical ecology · 2023Article
- The gut bacterial community affects immunity but not metabolism in a specialist herbivorous butterfly.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Herbivore-Induced Defenses in Tomato Plants Enhance the Lethality of the Entomopathogenic Bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki.Journal of chemical ecology · 2018Article
- Across Multiple Species, Phytochemical Diversity and Herbivore Diet Breadth Have Cascading Effects on Herbivore Immunity and Parasitism in a Tropical Model System.Frontiers in plant science · 2018Article
- Evolutionary Ecology of Multitrophic Interactions between Plants, Insect Herbivores and Entomopathogens.Journal of chemical ecology · 2017Review
- Conifer Monoterpene Chemistry during an Outbreak Enhances Consumption and Immune Response of an Eruptive Folivore.Journal of chemical ecology · 2016Article
- The impact of plant chemical diversity on plant-herbivore interactions at the community level.Oecologia · 2016Article
- Disease ecology across soil boundaries: effects of below-ground fungi on above-ground host-parasite interactions.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
- Immune benefits from alternative host plants could maintain polyphagy in a phytophagous insect.Oecologia · 2015Article
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Abstract
Specialist and generalist insect herbivore species often differ in how they respond to host plant traits, particularly defensive traits, and these responses can include weakened or strengthened immune responses to pathogens and parasites. Accurate methods to measure immune response in the presence and absence of pathogens and parasites are necessary to determine whether susceptibility to these natural enemies is reduced or increased by host plant traits. Plant chemical traits are particularly important in that host plant metabolites may function as antioxidants beneficial to the immune response, or interfere with the immune response of both specialist and generalist herbivores. Specialist herbivores that are adapted to process and sometimes accumulate specific plant compounds may experience high metabolic demands that may decrease immune response, whereas the metabolic demands of generalist species differ due to more broad-substrate enzyme systems. However, the direct deleterious effects of plant compounds on generalist herbivores may weaken their immune responses. Further research in this area is important given that the ecological relevance of plant traits to herbivore immune responses is equally important in natural systems and agroecosystems, due to potential incompatibility of some host plant species and cultivars with biological control agents of herbivorous pests.
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