Seasonality influences cuticle melanization and immune defense in a cricket: Support for a temperature-dependent immune investment hypothesis in insects

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 4005-4010

  Fedorka, Kenneth M ^a   Copeland, Emily K ^a   Winterhalter, Wade E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecoimmunology; Lytic; Phenoloxidase; Plasticity; Seasonality; Temperature dependent immunity

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ECOIMMUNOLOGY; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; HEMOLYMPH; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYTIC; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PLASTICITY; RANDOMIZATION; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT IMMUNITY; UNITED STATES;

ECOIMMUNOLOGY; LYTIC; PHENOLOXIDASE; PLASTICITY; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT IMMUNITY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; HEMOLYMPH; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; MELANINS; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEASONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SOUTH CAROLINA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84886504888     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.091538     Document Type: Article

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