Immunity in Ecology and Evolution: 'Hidden' costs of disease, immune function and their consequences for Darwinian fitness

Project Information

EcoImmuneCosts

Grant agreement ID: 742646

DOI

10.3030/742646

Project closed

EC signature date 13 June 2017

Start date 1 August 2017

End date 31 January 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 500 000,00

Coordinated by

LUNDS UNIVERSITET
Sweden

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Publications

Thesis and dissertations (3)

Telomeres in ecology and evolution: hypotheses and connections between telomere length, infections and life-history trade-offs

Author(s): David Gómez-Blanco
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Lund University

MHC polymorphism in a songbird: Fitness, mate choice, and sexual conflict

Author(s): Jacob Roved
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Lund University

What modulates telomere dynamics? Inheritance, developmental effects, and physiological challenges

Author(s): Ye Xiong
Published in: 2023, ISBN 978-91-8039-609-3
Publisher: Lund University

Peer reviewed articles (9)

The Accumulating Costs Hypothesis—to Better Understand Delayed “Hidden” Costs of Seemingly Mild Disease and Other Moderate Stressors

Author(s): Dennis Hasselquist; Michael Tobler
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Vol 9 (2021), Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.685057

Telomeres in ecology and evolution: A review and classification of hypotheses

Author(s): Michael Tobler; David Gómez‐Blanco; Arne Hegemann; Mariana Lapa; Júlio M. Neto; Maja Tarka; Ye Xiong; Dennis Hasselquist
Published in: Molecular Ecology, 2022, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16308

MHCtools – an R package for MHC high-throughput sequencing data: genotyping, haplotype and supertype inference, and downstream genetic analyses in non-model organisms

Author(s): Jacob Roved, Bengt Hansson, Martin Stervander, Dennis Hasselquist, Helena Westerdahl
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, 2022, ISSN 1755-0998
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13645

Individual and sex-related patterns of prolonged flights during both day and night by great reed warblers crossing the Mediterranean Sea and Sahara Desert

Author(s): Gintaras Malmiga; Maja Tarka; Thomas Alerstam; Bengt Hansson; Dennis Hasselquist
Published in: Journal of Avian Biology, 2021, ISSN 0908-8857
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jav.02549

Extreme altitudes during diurnal flights in a nocturnal songbird migrant.

Author(s): Sissel Sjöberg; Sissel Sjöberg; Gintaras Malmiga; Andreas Nord; Arne Andersson; Johan Bäckman; Maja Tarka; Mikkel Willemoes; Kasper Thorup; Bengt Hansson; Thomas Alerstam; Dennis Hasselquist
Published in: Science, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abe7291

Avian neo-sex chromosomes reveal dynamics of recombination suppression and W degeneration.

Author(s): Hanna Sigeman; Maria Strandh; Estelle Proux-Wéra; Verena E. Kutschera; Suvi Ponnikas; Hongkai Zhang; Max Lundberg; Lucile Soler; Ignas Bunikis; Maja Tarka; Dennis Hasselquist; Björn Nystedt; Helena Westerdahl; Bengt Hansson
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 1537-1719
Publisher: Oxford University press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab277

Evidence for sexual conflict over major histocompatibility complex diversity in a wild songbird

Author(s): Jacob Roved, Bengt Hansson, Maja Tarka, Dennis Hasselquist, Helena Westerdahl
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 285/1884, 2018, Page(s) 20180841, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0841

Wetter climates select for higher immune gene diversity in resident, but not migratory, songbirds

Author(s): Emily A. O'Connor, Dennis Hasselquist, Jan-Åke Nilsson, Helena Westerdahl, Charlie K. Cornwallis
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 287/1919, 2020, Page(s) 20192675, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2675

Early and Late Migrating Avian Individuals Differ in Constitutive Immune Function and Blood Parasite Infections – But Patterns Depend on the Migratory Strategy

Author(s): Arne Hegemann, Cyndi Birberg, Dennis Hasselquist, Jan-Åke Nilsson
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.880426