The effect of food limitation on immunity factors and disease resistance in the western tent caterpillar

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 647-655

  Myers, Judith H ^a   Cory, Jenny S ^b   Ericsson, Jerry D ^b   Tseng, Michelle L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Covert infection; Forest Lepidoptera; Population cycles; Sublethal affects; Viral epizootic

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

CATERPILLAR; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FECUNDITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY; PEST OUTBREAK; POPULATION CYCLE; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; VIRAL DISEASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DIET; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS; TIME; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; DIET; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; TIME FACTORS; VIRUS DISEASES;

LEPIDOPTERA; MALACOSOMA; MALACOSOMA CALIFORNICUM; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 80054035322     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2023-z     Document Type: Article

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