Feeding Immunity: Physiological and Behavioral Responses to Infection and Resource Limitation.

ABSTRACT: Resources are a core currency of species interactions and ecology in general (e.g., think of food webs or competition). Within parasite-infected hosts, resources are divided among the competing demands of host immunity and growth as well as parasite reproduction and growth. Effects of resources on immune responses are increasingly understood at the cellular level (e.g., metabolic predictors of effector function), but there has been limited consideration of how these effects scale up to affect individual energetic regimes (e.g., allocation trade-offs), susceptibility to infection, and feeding behavior (e.g., responses to local resource quality and quantity). We experimentally rewilded laboratory mice (strain C57BL/6) in semi-natural enclosures to investigate the effects of dietary protein a

SUBMITTER: Budischak SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5766659 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature