A meta-analysis of impacts of immune response and infection on oxidative status in vertebrates.

ABSTRACT: Inferring from patterns observed in biomedical research, ecoimmunological theory predicts that oxidative stress is a ubiquitous physiological cost that contributes to generating variation in immune function between individuals or species. This prediction is, however, often challenged by empirical studies testing the relationship between immune response or infection and oxidative status markers. This points out the importance of combining ecological immunology and oxidative stress ecology to further our understanding of the proximate causes and fitness consequences of individual variation in health, and adaptability to natural and anthropogenic environmental changes. I reviewed evidence and performed phylogenetic meta-analyses of changes in oxidative status markers owing to either injection

SUBMITTER: Costantini D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9040321 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature