Flexible diet choice offsets protein costs of pathogen resistance in a caterpillar

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1588, 2006, Pages 823-829

  Lee, K P ^a,b   Cory, J S ^c,d   Wilson, K ^b   Raubenheimer, D ^a,e   Simpson, S J ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d ALGOMA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Costs of resistance; Feeding behaviour; Immunity; Nutrition; Pathogen infection

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CARBOHYDRATE; CASEIN; PEPTONE; PROTEIN; SUCROSE;

CARBOHYDRATE; CATERPILLAR; DIET; DIETARY SHIFT; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; NUTRITION; PATHOGEN; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN; SURVIVAL;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; CATERPILLAR; DIET; DIGESTION; ENERGY COST; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN INTAKE; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LARVA;

HEXAPODA; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; SPODOPTERA LITTORALIS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; IMMUNITY; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LARVA; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; SPODOPTERA;

EID: 33745168229     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3385     Document Type: Article

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