ArticleEcology and evolution2016
Divergent immune priming responses across flour beetle life stages and populations.
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- Transgenerational Developmental Effects of Immune Priming in the Red Flour BeetleFrontiers in physiology · 2019Article
- Experimental evolution of insect immune memory versus pathogen resistance.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Divergent immune priming responses across flour beetle life stages and populations.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
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Abstract
Growing evidence shows that low doses of pathogens may prime the immune response in many insects, conferring subsequent protection against infection in the same developmental stage (within-life stage priming), across life stages (ontogenic priming), or to offspring (transgenerational priming). Recent work also suggests that immune priming is a costly response. Thus, depending on host and pathogen ecology and evolutionary history, tradeoffs with other fitness components may constrain the evolution of priming. However, the relative impacts of priming at different life stages and across natural populations remain unknown. We quantified immune priming responses of 10 natural populations of the red flour beetle
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