Ecoimmunology edited by Gregory E. Demas and Randy J. Nelson. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. - xii, 636 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to ecoimmunology / Gregory E. Demas and Randy J. Nelson -- Life-history evolution, hormones, and avian immune function / Dawn M. O'Neal and Ellen D. Ketterson -- Sickness behavior in vertebrates : allostasis, life-history modulation, and hormonal regulation / Noah T. Ashley and John C. Wingfield -- Amphibian immunity : staying in tune with the environment / Louise A. Rollins-Smith and Douglas C. Woodhams -- Immunity in primates within a psychosocial and life span perspective / Christopher L. Coe -- Maternal modulation of offspring immune function in vertebrates / Dennis Hasselquist, Michael Tobler, and Jan-Åke Nilsson -- Tradeoffs limiting MHC heterozygosity / Jason L. Kubinak ... [et al.] -- The energetics of immunity : mechanisms mediating trade-offs in ecoimmunology / Gregory Demas ... [et al.] -- Neuroendocrine mechanisms of seasonal changes in immune function / Zachary M. Weil and Randy J. Nelson -- Pineal gland and circulatory melatonin in regulation of immune status of seasonally breeding mammals / Chandana Haldar ... [et al.] -- Environmental challenges and the neuroendocrine mechanisms of stress-induced modulation of host resistance to microbial infection / Jacqueline W. Mays [et al.] -- Inflammation and behavior / Keith W. Kelley, Arnaud Aubert, and Robert Dantzer -- The importance of physiology for ecoimmunlogy : lessons from the insects / Shelley A. Adamo -- Interactions between host social behavior, physiology, and disease susceptibility : the role of social context / Bonnie Fairbanks and Dana M. Hawley -- Sexual selection and parasites : do mechanisms matter? / Anne C. Jacobs and Marlene Zuk -- Sex differences in immune responses to viruses / Dionne P. Robinson and Sabra L. Klein -- Immunopathology in ecological immunology / E. Rhiannon Pursall and Jens Rolff -- The evolutionary ecology of infectious disease virulence / Lars Råberg and Martin Stjernman -- Evolutionary genetics of infectious disease / Paul Schmid-Hempel.

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Immune system.
Disease susceptibility.
Psychoneuroimmunology.
Immune System--immunology.
Disease Susceptibility.
Ecosystem.
Immunity, Innate--immunology.
Psychoneuroimmunology--methods.

QR181 / .E26 2012

616.079 / D392

2012 A-092 QW 504
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