Effects of inbreeding on potential and realized immune responses in Tenebrio molitor

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 906-912

  Rantala, Markus J ^a   Viitaniemi, Heidi ^a   Roff, Derek A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beauveria bassiana; encapsulation; heterozygosity; homozygosity; immunocompetence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA BASSIANA; BODY WEIGHT; ENCAPSULATION; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INBREEDING; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR;

ANIMALS; BEAUVERIA; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INBREEDING; MALE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TENEBRIO;

CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; TENEBRIO MOLITOR; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79958796389     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011000473     Document Type: Article

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