Unravelling the Costs of Flight for Immune Defenses in the Migratory Monarch Butterfly

Reproduction–Immunity Trade-Offs in Insects

(2016) Robin A. Schwenke et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Migratory common blackbirds have lower innate immune function during autumn migration than resident conspecifics

(2016) Cas Eikenaar et al.   Biology Letters

Long-range seasonal migration in insects: mechanisms, evolutionary drivers and ecological consequences

(2015) Jason W. Chapman et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Flight response of slope-soaring birds to seasonal variation in thermal generation

(2014) Adam E. Duerr et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The Effects of Stress Hormones on Immune Function May be Vital for the Adaptive Reconfiguration of the Immune System During Fight-or-Flight Behavior

(2014) S. A. Adamo   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The genetics of monarch butterfly migration and warning colouration

(2014) Shuai Zhan et al.   NATURE

The Sleeping Beauty: How Reproductive Diapause Affects Hormone Signaling, Metabolism, Immune Response and Somatic Maintenance in Drosophila melanogaster

(2014) Olga I. Kubrak et al.   PLoS One

Differences in Speed and Duration of Bird Migration between Spring and Autumn

(2013) Cecilia Nilsson et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Quantifying the contribution of chromatin dynamics to stochastic gene expression reveals long, locus-dependent periods between transcriptional bursts

(2013) José Viñuelas et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Flight performance of western sandpipers, Calidris mauri, remains uncompromised when mounting an acute phase immune response

(2013) S. Nebel et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Induction of diapause and seasonal morphs in butterflies and other insects: knowns, unknowns and the challenge of integration

(2013) SÖREN NYLIN   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Influence of Developmental Conditions on Immune Function and Dispersal-Related Traits in the Glanville Fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) Butterfly

(2013) Marjo Saastamoinen et al.   PLoS One

Timing of arrival from spring migration is associated with flight performance in the migratory barn swallow

(2012) Piotr Matyjasiak   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Phenotypic compromises in a long-distance migrant during the transition from migration to reproduction in the High Arctic

(2012) François Vézina et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Intense flight and endotoxin injection elicit similar effects on leukocyte distributions but dissimilar effects on plasma-based immunological indices in pigeons

(2012) K. D. Matson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Migratory Connectivity of the Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus): Patterns of Spring Re-Colonization in Eastern North America

(2012) Nathan G. Miller et al.   PLoS One

Nocturnal passerine migrants fly faster in spring than in autumn: a test of the time minimization hypothesis

(2011) Håkan Karlsson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evaluating the life-history trade-off between dispersal capability and reproduction in wing dimorphic insects: a meta-analysis

(2011) Patrick A. Guerra   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Costs of dispersal

(2011) Dries Bonte et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The Monarch Butterfly Genome Yields Insights into Long-Distance Migration

(2011) Shuai Zhan et al.   CELL

Constitutive immune function in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, is decreased immediately after an endurance flight in a wind tunnel

(2011) S. Nebel et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Animal Migration and Infectious Disease Risk

(2011) S. Altizer et al.   SCIENCE

Blood Feeding and Insulin-like Peptide 3 Stimulate Proliferation of Hemocytes in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti

(2011) Julio Castillo et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Predictive Adaptive Responses: Condition‐Dependent Impact of Adult Nutrition and Flight in the Tropical Butterfly Bicyclus anynana

(2010) Marjo Saastamoinen et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Hemocitical responses to environmental stress in invertebrates: a review

(2010) Danielli Giuliano Perez et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

The insect cellular immune response

(2010) Michael R. Strand   Insect Science

How Do Migratory Species Stay Healthy Over the Annual Cycle? A Conceptual Model for Immune Function and For Resistance to Disease

(2010) Deborah M. Buehler et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Defining behavioral and molecular differences between summer and migratory monarch butterflies

(2009) Haisun Zhu et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Why should an immune response activate the stress response? Insights from the insects (the cricket Gryllus texensis)

(2009) S.A. Adamo   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY

Hormonal regulation of energy metabolism in insects as a driving force for performance

(2009) M. W. Lorenz et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Relationship between energetic condition and indicators of immune function in thrushes during spring migration

(2008) J. C. Owen et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Swainson’s thrushes in migratory disposition exhibit reduced immune function

(2008) Jennifer C. Owen et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

Competition between immune function and lipid transport for the protein apolipophorin III leads to stress-induced immunosuppression in crickets

(2008) S. A. Adamo et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Travelling on a budget: predictions and ecological evidence for bottlenecks in the annual cycle of long-distance migrants

(2007) D. M Buehler et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES