Ecoimmunology /
Demas, Gregory E.
Nelson, Randy Joe.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to ecoimmunology / Gregory E. Demas and Randy J. Nelson -- Life-history evolution, hormones, and avian immune function / Dawn M. O'Neal and Ellen D. Ketterson -- Sickness behavior in vertebrates : allostasis, life-history modulation, and hormonal regulation / Noah T. Ashley and John C. Wingfield -- Amphibian immunity : staying in tune with the environment / Louise A. Rollins-Smith and Douglas C. Woodhams -- Immunity in primates within a psychosocial and life span perspective / Christopher L. Coe -- Maternal modulation of offspring immune function in vertebrates / Dennis Hasselquist, Michael Tobler, and Jan-Åke Nilsson -- Tradeoffs limiting MHC heterozygosity / Jason L. Kubinak ... [et al.] -- The energetics of immunity : mechanisms mediating trade-offs in ecoimmunology / Gregory Demas ... [et al.] -- Neuroendocrine mechanisms of seasonal changes in immune function / Zachary M. Weil and Randy J. Nelson -- Pineal gland and circulatory melatonin in regulation of immune status of seasonally breeding mammals / Chandana Haldar ... [et al.] --
Environmental challenges and the neuroendocrine mechanisms of stress-induced modulation of host resistance to microbial infection / Jacqueline W. Mays [et al.] -- Inflammation and behavior / Keith W. Kelley, Arnaud Aubert, and Robert Dantzer -- The importance of physiology for ecoimmunlogy : lessons from the insects / Shelley A. Adamo -- Interactions between host social behavior, physiology, and disease susceptibility : the role of social context / Bonnie Fairbanks and Dana M. Hawley -- Sexual selection and parasites : do mechanisms matter? / Anne C. Jacobs and Marlene Zuk -- Sex differences in immune responses to viruses / Dionne P. Robinson and Sabra L. Klein -- Immunopathology in ecological immunology / E. Rhiannon Pursall and Jens Rolff -- The evolutionary ecology of infectious disease virulence / Lars Råberg and Martin Stjernman -- Evolutionary genetics of infectious disease / Paul Schmid-Hempel.
Immune system.
Disease susceptibility.
Psychoneuroimmunology.