Ecoimmunology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Demas, Gregory E., Nelson, Randy Joe
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
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