Physiological Tradeoffs of Immune Response Differs by Infection Type in Pieris napi.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the tradeoffs that result from successful infection responses is central to understanding how life histories evolve. Gaining such insights, however, can be challenging, as they may be pathogen specific and confounded with experimental design. Here, we investigated whether infection from gram positive or negative bacteria results in different physiological tradeoffs, and whether these infections impact life history later in life (post-diapause development), in the butterfly Pieris napi. During the first 24 h after infection (3, 6, 12, and 24 h), after removing effects due to injection, larvae infected with Micrococcus luteus showed a strong suppression of all non-immunity related processes while several types of immune responses were upregulated. In contrast, thi

SUBMITTER: Keehnen NLP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7838647 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature