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| Soulsbury, Carl D.; Siitari, Heli; Lebigre, Christophe. |
| Illnesses caused by a variety of micro- and macro- organisms can negatively affect individuals' fitness, leading to the expectation that immunity is under positive selection. However, immune responses are costly and individuals must trade-off their immune response with other fitness components (e.g. survival or reproductive success) meaning that individuals with intermediate response may have the greatest overall fitness. Such a process might be particularly acute in species with strong sexual selection because the condition-dependence of male secondary sexual-traits might lead to striking phenotypic differences amongst males of different immune response levels. We tested whether there is selection on immune response by survival and reproduction in... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Ecological immunology; ELISA; Immunocompetance; Life history theory; Stabilising selection. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00426/53761/54653.pdf |
