Immune defense and host sociality: A comparative study of swallows and martins

American Naturalist

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 136-145

  Moller A P ^a   Merino, S ^a   Brown, C R ^a   Robertson, R J ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Coloniality; Hirundinidae; Parasitism; Swallows; Virulence

Indexed keywords

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

HIRUNDINIDAE;

EID: 0034920030     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/321308     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. The evolution of social behavior
2. Coevolution of hosts and parasites
3. Stress and immune response
4. A game-theoretical model of parasite virulence
5. Ectoparasitism as a cost of coloniality in cliff swallows (Hirundo pyrrhonota)
6. Avian coloniality: Progress and problems
7. Virulence
8. Occurrence and demography of mites of tree swallow, house wren, and eastern bluebird nests
9. Genetic analysis of immunocompetence measures in a white leghorn chicken line
10. Immunocompetence and nestling survival in the house martin: The tasty chick hypothesis
11. The influence of weather conditions and ectoparasites on immune responses, morphology and recapture probability of nestling house martins (Delichon urbica)
12. Parasitism and group size in social animals: A meta-analysis
13. Malaria infection rate of Amazonian monkeys increases with sleeping group size
14. Malaria infection rate of Amazonian monkeys increases with body weight and group size
15. Increased detrimental effects of ectoparasites on their bird hosts during adverse environmental conditions
16. Host-parasite relations, vectors, and the evolution of disease severity
17. Growth, developmental stability and immune response in juvenile Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica)
18. Phylogenies and the comparative method
19. Models of parasite virulence
20. Pathogens and the evolution of primate sociality
21. Primate social groups as biological islands
22. Immunocompetence and condition-dependent sexual advertisement in male house sparrows (Passer domesticus)
23. Immune function and survival of great tit nestlings in relation to growth conditions
24. Prospects for interspecific comparison in sociobiology
25. Ectoparasites: Direct impact on host fitness
26. Relationship between protein nutritional status and immunocompetence in northern bobwhite chicks
27. Does clutch size evolve in response to parasites and immunocompetence?
28. The morphology of the phytohemagglutinin-induced cell response in the chicken wattle
29. Increase in a heat shock protein from blood cells in response to parasitism of nestling house martins (Delichon urbica): An experimental approach
30. Seasonal changes in cell-mediated immunocompetence and mass gain in nestling barn swallows: A parasite-mediated effect?
31. Effects of parasitism by a haematophagous mite on reproduction in the barn swallow
32. Parasites and the evolution of host life history
33. Parasite virulence and host immune defense: Host immune response is related to nest reuse in birds
34. Predation against birds with low immunocompetence
35. Parasites and the evolution of host social behavior
36. Ectoparasitism as a possible cost of social life: A comparative analysis using Australian passerines
37. Group-living and the richness of the parasite fauna in Canadian freshwater fishes
38. Comparative analysis by independent contrasts (CAIC): An Apple Macintosh application for analysing comparative data
39. Embryonic development period and the prevalence of avian blood parasites
40. Patterns and effects of parasitism by Protocalliphora sialia on tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) nestlings
41. Immunocompetence of nestling barn swallows in relation to brood size and parental effort
42. Immunocompetence, ornamentation, and viability of male barn swallows (Hirundo rustica)
43. Intergeneric phylogenetic relationships of swallows estimated by DNA-DNA hybridization
44. Parasites, pathogens, and polyandry in social Hymenoptera
45. Weight lifting and health status in the black wheatear
46. Monitoring of sand martin (Riparia riparia): Chance of forecasting a severe population decline
47. Cost of parasitism and host immune defence in the sand martin Riparia riparia: A role for parent-offspring conflict?
48. Do predators always capture substandard individuals disproportionately from prey populations?
49. Coevolution of recovery ability and virulence
50. Rates of parasitism in relation to nest site in bees and wasps (Hymenoptera: Apodidae)
51. A simple hemagglutination system requiring small amounts of cells and antibodies