Ecoimmunology
By: edited by Gregory E. Demas and Randy J. Nelson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780199737345
Subjects: Disease susceptibility; Immunology; Methods; Ecosystem; Psychoneuroimmunology; Immune System; Innate Immunity; Immune system; Disease Susceptibility
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to eco-immunology / Gregory E. Demas and Randy J. Nelson; title: Life history evolution, hormones, and avian immune function / Dawn M. O'Neal and Ellen D. Ketterson; title: Sickness behavior in vertebrates: allostasis, life-history modulation, and hormonal regulation / Noah T. Ashley and John C. Wingfield; title: Amphibian immunity : staying in tune with the environment / Louise Rollins-Smith and Douglas Woodhams; title: Immunity in primates within a psychosocial and life span perspective / Chris Coe; title: Maternal modulation of offspring immune function in vertebrates / Dennis Hasselquist, Michael Tobler, and Jan-Ake Nilsson; title: Tradeoffs limiting MHC heterozygosity / Jason L. Kubinak ... [et al.]; title: The energetics of immunity: mechanisms of trade-offs in eco-immunology / Gregory Demas ... [et al.]; title: Neuroendocrine mechanisms of seasonal changes in immune function / Zachary M. Weil and Randy J. Nelson; title: Pineal gland and circulatory melatonin in regulation of immune status of seasonally breeding mammals / C. Haldar ... [et al.]; title: Environmental challenges and the neuroendocrine mechanisms of stress-induced modulation of host resistance to microbial infection / Jacqueline W. Mays [et al.]; title: Inflammation and behavior / Keith W. Kelley, Arnaud Aubert,and Robert Dantzer; title: The importance of physiology for ecoimmunlogy: lessons from the insects / Shelley Adamo; title: Interactions between host social behavior, physiology, and disease susceptibility: the role of social context / Bonnie Fairbanks and Dana Hawley; title: Sexual selection and parasites: do mechanisms matter? / Anne C. Jacobs and Marlene Zuk; title: Sex differences in immune responses to viruses / Dionne P. Robinson and Sabra L. Klein; title: Immunopathology in ecological immunology / E. Rhiannon Pursall and Jens Rolff; title: The evolutionary ecology of infectious disease virulence / Lars Raberg and Martin Stjernman; title: Evolutionary genetics of infectious disease / Paul Schmid-Hempel.