ArticleEcology and evolution2016
Temperature and population density: interactional effects of environmental factors on phenotypic plasticity, immune defenses, and disease resistance in an insect pest.
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- Impact of the Diet on the Mortality and on Gene Expression of the Antimicrobial Peptide Tenecin 3 inInsects · 2023Article
- Immune Response in Crayfish Is Species-Specific and Exhibits Changes along Invasion Range of a Successful Invader.Biology · 2021Article
- Haemocyte variations in 35 species of grasshoppers and locusts.Science progress · 2021Article
- Wide Diurnal Temperature Amplitude and High Population Density Can Positively Affect the Life History of Sitobion avenae (Hemiptera: Aphididae).Journal of insect science (Online) · 2021Article
- Realism in Immune Ecology Studies: Artificial Diet Enhances a Caterpillar's Immune Defense but Does Not Mask the Effects of a Plastic Immune Strategy.Frontiers in insect science · 2021Article
- Lower bioenergetic costs but similar immune responsiveness under a heat wave in urban compared to rural damselflies.Evolutionary applications · 2021Article
- Effects of Larval Density onInsects · 2020Article
- Immune Defenses of a Beneficial Pest: The Mealworm Beetle,Frontiers in physiology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Temperature and crowding are key environmental factors mediating the transmission and epizooty of infectious disease in ectotherm animals. The host physiology may be altered in a temperature-dependent manner and thus affects the pathogen development and course of diseases within an individual and host population, or the transmission rates (or infectivity) of pathogens shift linearly with the host population density. To our understanding, the knowledge of interactive and synergistic effects of temperature and population density on the host-pathogen system is limited. Here, we tested the interactional effects of these environmental factors on phenotypic plasticity, immune defenses, and disease resistance in the velvetbean caterpillar
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