1. Introduction to ecoimmunology
Gregory E. Demas and Randy J. Nelson
Indiana University and the Ohio State University
2. Life history evolution, hormones, and avian immune function
Dawn M. O'Neal and Ellen D. Ketterson
Indiana University
3. Sickness behavior in vertebrates: Allostasis, life-history
modulation,
and hormonal regulation
Noah T. Ashley and John C. Wingfield
University of Alaska, Anchorage and University of California,
Davis
4. Amphibian Immunity: Staying in tune with the environment
Louise Rollins-Smith and Douglas Woodhams
Vanderbilt University
5. Immunity in primates within a psychosocial and life span
perspective
Chris Coe
University of Wisconsin
6. Maternal modulation of offspring immune function in
vertebrates
Dennis Hasselquist, Michael Tobler and Jan-Åke Nilsson
Lund University
7. Tradeoffs limiting MHC heterozygosity
Jason L. Kubinak, Adam C. Nelson, James S. Ruff and Wayne K.
Potts
University of Utah
8. The energetics of immunity: Mechanisms of trade-offs in
ecoimmunology
Gregory Demas, Timothy Greives, Emily Chester and Susannah
French
Indiana University, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and Utah
State University
9. Neuroendocrine mechanisms of seasonal changes in immune
function
Zachary M. Weil and Randy J. Nelson
The Ohio State University
10. Pineal gland and circulatory melatonin in regulation of immune
status of seasonally breeding mammals
C. Haldar, S. Gupta, S. Rai, R. Ahmed and R. Yadav
Banaras Hindu University
11. Environmental challenges and the neuroendocrine mechanisms of
stress-induced modulation of host resistance to microbial
infection
Jacqueline W. Mays, Nicole D. Powell, Michael T. Bailey and John F.
Sheridan
The Ohio State University
12. Inflammation and behavior
Keith W. Kelley, Arnaud Aubert and Robert Dantzer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and DESCO, Faculté des
Sciences
13. The importance of physiology for ecoimmunlogy: Lessons from the
insects
Shelley Adamo
Dalhousie University
14. Interactions between host social behavior, physiology, and
disease susceptibility: the role of social context
Bonnie Fairbanks and Dana Hawley
Virginia Tech University
15. Sexual selection and parasites: Do mechanisms matter?
Anne C. Jacobs and Marlene Zuk
University of California, Riverside
16. Sex differences in immune responses to viruses
Dionne P. Robinson and Sabra L. Klein
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
17. Immunopathology in ecological immunology
E Rhiannon Pursall and Jens Rolff
University of Sheffield
18. The evolutionary ecology of infectious disease virulence
Lars Råberg and Martin Stjernman
Lund University
19. Evolutionary genetics of infectious disease
Paul Schmid-Hempel
ETH Zurich
Gregory E. Demas is Associate Professor of Biology and Director of
the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (CISAB) at
Indiana University, where he has been for the last 10 years.
Randy J. Nelson holds the Brumbaugh Chair in Brain Research and
Teaching at The Ohio State University Medical Center. He is
professor and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience and a member
of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine at The Ohio State
University Medical Center.
"I am heartened by this book. I keenly await the future discoveries
that are made possible by its synthetic and empirically grounded
approach to the evolutionary ecology of immune defence."
-- Andrea L. Graham, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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