Journal article
Nutritional stress and behavioural immunity of damselflies
Abstract
Increased mortality in the presence of stress may result from stress-reduced availability of energy for immune function, coupled with the presence of pathogens or parasites. We tested the hypothesis that stress reduces antiparasite responses of damselflies Ischnuraverticalis (Hagen) to their ectoparasitic mitesArrenuruspseudosuperior (Marshall). Numbers of colonizing mites did not differ between nutritionally stressed and unstressed …
Authors
Leung B; Forbes MR; Baker RL
Journal
Animal Behaviour, Vol. 61, No. 6, pp. 1093–1099
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
6 2001
DOI
10.1006/anbe.2001.1693
ISSN
0003-3472