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Informationen zum Autor Gregory E. Demas is Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (CISAB) at Indiana University, where he has been for the last 10 years. Randy J. Nelson holds the Brumbaugh Chair in Brain Research and Teaching at The Ohio State University Medical Center. He is professor and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience and a member of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine at The Ohio State University Medical Center. Klappentext This book critically reviews recent advances in eco-immunology, a newly emergent, interdisciplinary research field that examines interactions among host physiology and disease ecology in a wide range of environmentally relevant contexts. Zusammenfassung This book critically reviews recent advances in ecoimmunology, a newly emergent, interdisciplinary research field that examines interactions among host physiology and disease ecology in a wide range of environmentally relevant contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction to ecoimmunology Gregory E. Demas and Randy J. Nelson Indiana University and the Ohio State University 2. Life history evolution, hormones, and avian immune function Dawn M. O'Neal and Ellen D. Ketterson Indiana University 3. Sickness behavior in vertebrates: Allostasis, life-history modulation, and hormonal regulation Noah T. Ashley and John C. Wingfield University of Alaska, Anchorage and University of California, Davis 4. Amphibian Immunity: Staying in tune with the environment Louise Rollins-Smith and Douglas Woodhams Vanderbilt University 5. Immunity in primates within a psychosocial and life span perspective Chris Coe University of Wisconsin 6. Maternal modulation of offspring immune function in vertebrates Dennis Hasselquist, Michael Tobler and Jan-Åke Nilsson Lund University 7. Tradeoffs limiting MHC heterozygosity Jason L. Kubinak, Adam C. Nelson, James S. Ruff and Wayne K. Potts University of Utah 8. The energetics of immunity: Mechanisms of trade-offs in ecoimmunology Gregory Demas, Timothy Greives, Emily Chester and Susannah French Indiana University, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and Utah State University 9. Neuroendocrine mechanisms of seasonal changes in immune function Zachary M. Weil and Randy J. Nelson The Ohio State University 10. Pineal gland and circulatory melatonin in regulation of immune status of seasonally breeding mammals C. Haldar, S. Gupta, S. Rai, R. Ahmed and R. Yadav Banaras Hindu University 11. Environmental challenges and the neuroendocrine mechanisms of stress-induced modulation of host resistance to microbial infection Jacqueline W. Mays, Nicole D. Powell, Michael T. Bailey and John F. Sheridan The Ohio State University 12. Inflammation and behavior Keith W. Kelley, Arnaud Aubert and Robert Dantzer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and DESCO, Faculté des Sciences 13. The importance of physiology for ecoimmunlogy: Lessons from the insects Shelley Adamo Dalhousie University 14. Interactions between host social behavior, physiology, and disease susceptibility: the role of social context Bonnie Fairbanks and Dana Hawley Virginia Tech University 15. Sexual selection and parasites: Do mechanisms matter? Anne C. Jacobs and Marlene Zuk University of California, Riverside 16. Sex differences in immune responses to viruses Dionne P. Robinson and Sabra L. Klein Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 17. Immunopathology in ecological immunology E Rhiannon Pursall and Jens Rolff University of Sheffield 18. The evolutionary ecology of infectious disease virulence Lars Råberg and Martin Stjernman Lund University 19. Evolutionary genetics of infectious disease Paul Schmid-Hempel
