Ecoimmunology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, U.K. ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to eco-immunology
- Life history evolution, hormones, and avian immune function
- Sickness behavior in vertebrates : allostasis, life-history modulation, and hormonal regulation
- Amphibian immunity : staying in tune with the environment
- Immunity in primates within a psychosocial and life span perspective
- Maternal modulation of offspring immune function in vertebrates
- Tradeoffs limiting MHC heterozygosity
- The energetics of immunity : mechanisms of trade-offs in eco-immunology
- Neuroendocrine mechanisms of seasonal changes in immune function
- Pineal gland and circulatory melatonin in regulation of immune status of seasonally breeding mammals
- Environmental challenges and the neuroendocrine mechanisms of stress-induced modulation of host resistance to microbial infection
- Inflammation and behavior
- The importance of physiology for ecoimmunlogy : lessons from the insects
- Interactions between host social behavior, physiology, and disease susceptibility : the role of social context
- Sexual selection and parasites : do mechanisms matter?
- Sex differences in immune responses to viruses
- Immunopathology in ecological immunology
- The evolutionary ecology of infectious disease virulence
- Evolutionary genetics of infectious disease