Maternal effects in disease resistance: Poor maternal environment increases offspring resistance to an insect virus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1744, 2012, Pages 4009-4014

  Boots, Mike ^a   Roberts, Katherine E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immunity; Phenoloxidase; Plodia interpunctella; Resource; Trans generational

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INSECT; LIFE HISTORY; MATERNAL EFFECT; PARASITE RESISTANCE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; VIRUS;

EID: 84865360213     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1073     Document Type: Article

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