Fitness costs of animal medication: antiparasitic plant chemicals reduce fitness of monarch butterfly hosts

Ants medicate to fight disease

(2015) Nick Bos et al.   EVOLUTION

Secondary Defense Chemicals in Milkweed Reduce Parasite Infection in Monarch Butterflies, Danaus plexippus

(2015) Camden D. Gowler et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Milkweed butterfly resistance to plant toxins is linked to sequestration, not coping with a toxic diet

(2015) Georg Petschenka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Secondary metabolites in floral nectar reduce parasite infections in bumblebees

(2015) L. L. Richardson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A New Role of the Mosquito Complement-like Cascade in Male Fertility in Anopheles gambiae

(2015) Julien Pompon et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Ecology and Evolution of Animal Medication: Genetically Fixed Response versus Phenotypic Plasticity

(2014) Marc Choisy et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Pathogen-associated self-medication behavior in the honeybee Apis mellifera

(2014) Bogdan I. Gherman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Self-medication in insects: current evidence and future perspectives

(2014) JESSICA ABBOTT   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Effects of soil nutrients on the sequestration of plant defence chemicals by the specialist insect herbivore,Danaus plexippus

(2014) LEILING TAO et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Patterns of Host-Parasite Adaptation in Three Populations of Monarch Butterflies Infected with a Naturally Occurring Protozoan Disease: Virulence, Resistance, and Tolerance

(2013) Eleanore D. Sternberg et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Self-Medication in Animals

(2013) J. C. de Roode et al.   SCIENCE

FOOD PLANT DERIVED DISEASE TOLERANCE AND RESISTANCE IN A NATURAL BUTTERFLY-PLANT-PARASITE INTERACTIONS

(2012) Eleanore D. Sternberg et al.   EVOLUTION

Does anthropogenic nitrogen deposition induce phosphorus limitation in herbivorous insects?

(2012) Leiling Tao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Toxic cardenolides: chemical ecology and coevolution of specialized plant-herbivore interactions

(2012) Anurag A. Agrawal et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Behavioral Immunity in Insects

(2012) Jacobus C. de Roode et al.   Insects

Latitudinal patterns in plant defense: evolution of cardenolides, their toxicity and induction following herbivory

(2011) Sergio Rasmann et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Aphids indirectly increase virulence and transmission potential of a monarch butterfly parasite by reducing defensive chemistry of a shared food plant

(2011) Jacobus C. de Roode et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

REVERSE EVOLUTION: SELECTION AGAINST COSTLY RESISTANCE IN DISEASE-FREE MICROCOSM POPULATIONS OF PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM

(2011) Alison B. Duncan et al.   EVOLUTION

Behavioural resistance against a protozoan parasite in the monarch butterfly

(2011) Thierry Lefèvre et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Virulence evolution in response to anti-infection resistance: toxic food plants can select for virulent parasites of monarch butterflies

(2011) J. C. De ROODE et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Non-immunological defense in an evolutionary framework

(2011) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Density-dependent prophylactic immunity reconsidered in the light of host group living and social behavior

(2010) Simon L. Elliot et al.   ECOLOGY

Fitness costs associated with mounting a social immune response

(2010) S. C. Cotter et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evidence for trans-generational medication in nature

(2010) Thierry Lefèvre et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disease ecology meets ecological immunology: understanding the links between organismal immunity and infection dynamics in natural populations

(2010) Dana M. Hawley et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Cost of oviposition site selection in a water strider Aquarius paludum insularis: Egg mortality increases with oviposition depth

(2010) Hiroyuki Hirayama et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Genetic variation in resistance, but not tolerance, to a protozoan parasite in the monarch butterfly

(2010) T. Lefevre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cardenolides, induced responses, and interactions between above- and belowground herbivores of milkweed (Asclepiasspp.)

(2009) Sergio Rasmann et al.   ECOLOGY

RESIN COLLECTION AND SOCIAL IMMUNITY IN HONEY BEES

(2009) Michael Simone et al.   EVOLUTION

Strength in numbers: high parasite burdens increase transmission of a protozoan parasite of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus)

(2009) Jacobus C. de Roode et al.   OECOLOGIA

Consumption of a nectar alkaloid reduces pathogen load in bumble bees

(2009) Jessamyn S. Manson et al.   OECOLOGIA

Self-Medication as Adaptive Plasticity: Increased Ingestion of Plant Toxins by Parasitized Caterpillars

(2009) Michael S. Singer et al.   PLoS One

Host plant species affects virulence in monarch butterfly parasites

(2007) Jacobus C. de Roode et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY