ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Fitness outcomes in relation to individual variation in constitutive innate immune function.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Antigen specificity affects analysis of natural antibodies.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Article
- Seasonal changes in diet, immune function, and oxidative stress in three passerines inhabiting a Mediterranean climate.Oecologia · 2023Article
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- Effects of manipulated food availability and seasonality on innate immune function in a passerine.The Journal of animal ecology · 2022Article
- Variations in immune parameters with age in a wild rodent population and links with survival.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Telomere length declines with age, but relates to immune function independent of age in a wild passerine.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Effects of early-life conditions on innate immune function in adult zebra finches.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Fitness outcomes in relation to individual variation in constitutive innate immune function.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Although crucial for host survival when facing persistent parasite pressure, costly immune functions will inevitably compete for resources with other energetically expensive traits such as reproduction. Optimizing, but not necessarily maximizing, immune function might therefore provide net benefit to overall host fitness. Evidence for associations between fitness and immune function is relatively rare, limiting our potential to understand ultimate fitness costs of immune investment. Here, we assess how measures of constitutive immune function (haptoglobin, natural antibodies, complement activity) relate to subsequent fitness outcomes (survival, reproductive success, dominance acquisition) in a wild passerine (
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