The Evolutionary Biology of Host Defence

Parasite Immunology published a Special Issue October 10th on The Evolutionary Biology of Host Defence, with 7 articles and an overview editorial by Andrea Graham.   This will be required reading for all who study evolution and infection.   The articles are linked below, but they are unfortunately not open access.

Optimal immunity meets natural variation: the evolutionary biology of host defence(pages 315–317)

A. L. Graham

Induction of appropriate Th-cell phenotypes: cellular decision-making in heterogeneous environments (pages 318–330)

H.-J. van den Ham, A. C. Andeweg and R. J. de Boer

Optimal immune defence in the light of variation in lifespan (pages 331–338)

M. Boots, R. Donnelly and A. White

Heterogeneity in infection outcome: lessons from a bumblebee-trypanosome system(pages 339–349)

B. M. Sadd and S. M. Barribeau

Immunity, resistance and tolerance in bird–parasite interactions (pages 350–361)

G. Sorci

Causes and consequences of intra- and inter-host heterogeneity in defence against nematodes (pages 362–373)

A. D. Hayward

Wound healing in the wild: stress, sociality and energetic costs affect wound healing in natural populations (pages 374–385)

E. A. Archie

Wild rodents as a model to discover genes and pathways underlying natural variation in infectious disease susceptibility (pages 386–395)

A. K. Turner and S. Paterson