Mating and immunity in invertebrates

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A drosomycin-GFP reporter transgene reveals a local immune response in Drosophila that is not dependent on the Toll pathway

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Innate immune recognition and control of adaptive immune responses

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Specific memory within innate immune systems

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How should behavioural ecologists interpret measurements of immunity?

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Traumatic insemination and sexual conflict in the bed bug Cimex lectularius

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Melanization immune responses in mosquito vectors

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Optimal immune responses: immunocompetence revisited

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Female × Male Interactions in Drosophila Sperm Competition

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Copulation corrupts immunity: A mechanism for a cost of mating in insects

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Genes Regulated by Mating, Sperm, or Seminal Proteins in Mated Female Drosophila melanogaster

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Adaptive innate immunity? Responsive-mode prophylaxis in the mealworm beetle,Tenebrio molitor

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Trans-generational immune priming in a social insect

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Drosophila Sex-Peptide Stimulates Female Innate Immune System after Mating via the Toll and Imd Pathways

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A mechanistic link between parasite resistance and expression of a sexually selected trait in a damselfly

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Increased sexual activity reduces male immune function in Drosophila melanogaster

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Promiscuity and the Primate Immune System

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Genetic Basis of Natural Variation in D. melanogaster Antibacterial Immunity

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Immunocompetence, developmental stability and wingspot size in the damselfly Calopteryx splendens L.

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Basis of the trade–off between parasitoid resistance and larval competitive ability inDrosophila melanogaster

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Trade-Offs with Resistance to a Granulosis Virus in the Indian Meal Moth, Examined by a Laboratory Evolution Experiment

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Aging of the innate immune response in Drosophila melanogaster

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Alternative hypotheses linking the immune system and mate choice for good genes

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The role of juvenile hormone in immune function and pheromone production trade-offs: a test of the immunocompetence handicap principle

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Condition dependence of pheromones and immune function in the grain beetle Tenebrio molitor

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IMMUNE SUPPRESSION AND THE COST OF REPRODUCTION IN THE GROUND CRICKET, ALLONEMOBIUS SOCIUS

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Decreased immune response as a proximate cost of copulation and oviposition in a damselfly

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Do pheromones reveal male immunocompetence?

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Sensing and signaling during infection in Drosophila

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Signaling Health versus Parasites

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A genome-wide analysis of courting and mating responses in Drosophila melanogaster females

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BATEMAN'S PRINCIPLE AND IMMUNITY: PHENOTYPICALLY PLASTIC REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES PREDICT CHANGES IN IMMUNOLOGICAL SEX DIFFERENCES

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Courtship song and immune function in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

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Male calling song provides a reliable signal of immune function in a cricket

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Wing pigmentation, immune ability, fat reserves and territorial status in males of the rubyspot damselfly, Hetaerina americana

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Female choice and the MHC

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Natural insect host-parasite systems show immune priming and specificity: puzzles to be solved

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Bacterial Immunity Traded for Sperm Viability in Male Crickets

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A trade‐off between sexual signalling and immune function in a natural population of the drumming wolf spider Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata

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Modulation of sexual signalling by immune challenged male mealworm beetles ( Tenebrio molitor , L.): evidence for terminal investment and dishonesty

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Male dominance and immunocompetence in a field cricket

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The Homeobox Gene Caudal Regulates Constitutive Local Expression of Antimicrobial Peptide Genes in Drosophila Epithelia

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The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis: testing the genetic predictions

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Assortative fertilization in Drosophila

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Immune function reflected in calling song characteristics in a natural population of the cricket Teleogryllus commodus

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Germline and somatic diversification of immune recognition elements in Metazoa

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Reproduction–Immunity Trade-Offs in Insects

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