Environmental proxies of antigen exposure explain variation in immune investment better than indices of pace of life

Are antimicrobial defences in bird eggs related to climatic conditions associated with risk of trans-shell microbial infection?

(2014) Nicholas PC Horrocks et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Offspring pay sooner, parents pay later: experimental manipulation of body mass reveals trade-offs between immune function, reproduction and survival

(2013) Arne Hegemann et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Global drivers and patterns of microbial abundance in soil

(2013) Hector M. Serna-Chavez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset

(2013) I. Harris et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Multilocus phylogeny of the avian family Alaudidae (larks) reveals complex morphological evolution, non-monophyletic genera and hidden species diversity

(2013) Per Alström et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Complex Interplay of Body Condition, Life History, and Prevailing Environment Shapes Immune Defenses of Garter Snakes in the Wild

(2013) Maria G. Palacios et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Spatial and Temporal Biogeography of Soil Microbial Communities in Arid and Semiarid Regions

(2013) Zohar Pasternak et al.   PLoS One

Baseline haptoglobin concentrations are repeatable and predictive of certain aspects of a subsequent experimentally-induced inflammatory response

(2012) Kevin D. Matson et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Do immunological, endocrine and metabolic traits fall on a single Pace-of-Life axis? Covariation and constraints among physiological systems

(2012) M. A. Versteegh et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Immune function in a free-living bird varies over the annual cycle, but seasonal patterns differ between years

(2012) Arne Hegemann et al.   OECOLOGIA

Relationship between pace of life and immune responses in wild rodents

(2012) M. Andrea Previtali et al.   OIKOS

The global limits and population at risk of soil-transmitted helminth infections in 2010

(2012) Rachel L Pullan et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Immune Indexes of Larks from Desert and Temperate Regions Show Weak Associations with Life History but Stronger Links to Environmental Variation in Microbial Abundance

(2012) Nicholas P. C. Horrocks et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Condition-Specific Competition Governs the Geographic Distribution and Diversity of Ectoparasites

(2011) J. R. Malenke et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Physiological roles of ovotransferrin

(2011) Francesco Giansanti et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS

Pathogen Pressure Puts Immune Defense into Perspective

(2011) N. P. C. Horrocks et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Prevalence of potentially pathogenic culturable bacteria on eggshells and in cloacae of female Pied Flycatchers in a temperate habitat in central Spain

(2011) Rafael Ruiz-de-Castañeda et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

A meta-analysis of responses of soil biota to global change

(2011) Joseph C. Blankinship et al.   OECOLOGIA

A simple assay for measurement of ovotransferrin - a marker of inflammation and infection in birds

(2011) Nicholas P. C. Horrocks et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Mounting a specific immune response increases energy expenditure of the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum (tuco-tuco): implications for intraspecific and interspecific variation in immunological traits

(2010) A. P. Cutrera et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Climate variability affects the impact of parasitic flies on Argentinean forest birds

(2010) L. R. Antoniazzi et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Soil Microbial Abundance and Diversity Along a Low Precipitation Gradient

(2010) Ami Bachar et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Effects of precipitation on parasite burden along a natural climatic gradient in southern Africa - implications for possible shifts in infestation patterns due to global changes

(2010) Götz Froeschke et al.   OIKOS

Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data

(2010) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The International Limits and Population at Risk of Plasmodium vivax Transmission in 2009

(2010) Carlos A. Guerra et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Land use and climatic factors structure regional patterns in soil microbial communities

(2009) Rebecca E. Drenovsky et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A test of life-history theories of immune defence in two ecotypes of the garter snake,Thamnophis elegans

(2009) Amanda Marie Sparkman et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The seven deadly sins of comparative analysis

(2009) R. P. FRECKLETON   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Geographic Variation in the Community Structure of Lice on Western Scrub-Jays

(2009) Sarah E. Bush et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

The effect of environmental parameters on the survival of airborne infectious agents

(2009) J. W. Tang   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Climate and Vectorborne Diseases

(2008) Kenneth L. Gage et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

GLOBAL POTENTIAL NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION PREDICTED FROM VEGETATION CLASS, PRECIPITATION, AND TEMPERATURE

(2008) Stephen Del Grosso et al.   ECOLOGY

Constitutive immune defences correlate with life-history variables in tropical birds

(2008) K. A. Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY