Terminal Reproductive Investment, Physiological Trade-offs and Pleiotropic Effects: Their effects produce complex immune/reproductive interactions in the cricket Gryllus texensis
A. Miyashita, T. Y. M. Lee, L. E. McMillan, R. Easy, S. A. Adamo
The paper investigates reproductive and immune responses in female crickets under immune challenge and dietary restriction, finding no effect of immune challenge on reproduction and unexpected results regarding physiological trade-offs.
bioRxiv · Dec 17, 2018Ecology