Imroze Khan

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the importance of tracing the evolutionary basis of pathogen tolerance in reservoir hosts, while drawing implications from their diverse physiological and life-history traits, and ecological contexts of host-pathogen interactions.

TL;DR: This work's results suggest two major selective pressures that may explain the observed inter-population variation in priming: Basal pathogen susceptibility - populations that were more susceptible to infection produced a stronger priming response, and Short-term early reproductive success - populations where primed females produced more offspring early in life had lower survival benefit.

TL;DR: An improvement of immunity is found with the progression of age with 13-day-old flies exhibiting lower bacterial load compared with 3-day old flies, and the effect of an individual's age, parental age, sex, and mating status on overall antibacterial immunity is assessed.

TL;DR: In this article, the association between the mating system and sexual dimorphism in immunity in seed beetles, where mating causes internal injuries in females, has been investigated using transcriptomic analyses, experimental evolution and phylogenetic comparative methods.

TL;DR: It is found that sexual interactions did not explain female fitness and females appear to use quinones as weapons for female-specific, density-dependent interference competition, underscoring the importance of nonsexual interference competition.