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- males that lack this fragment (‘NO-males’).
- However, emerging evidence suggests that
- such adaptive immune responses are costly,
- here manifested by reduced body condition and
- a compromised defence against secondary infections
- by haemoprotid parasites that use the
- ticks as vectors. Subsequent to tick encounter,
- O-males suffer from a higher leucocyte–erythrocyte
- ratio, and higher haemoprotid parasitaemia,
- in particular in relation to vector encounter
- rate. Furthermore, O-males (i.e. successful tick
- defenders) with more haemoprotid parasites
- remaining in their blood stream were in better
- body condition, whereas this did not apply
- in NO-males, demonstrating that the adaptive
- immunoreaction can—in the short term—be
- energetically even more costly than being moderately
- parasitized. In agreement with Zahavian
- handicap theory, O-males had a (marginally)
- higher reproductive success than males that
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- males that lack this fragment (‘NO-males’).
- However, emerging evidence suggests that
- such adaptive immune responses are costly,
- here manifested by reduced body condition and
- a compromised defence against secondary infections
- by haemoprotid parasites that use the
- ticks as vectors. Subsequent to tick encounter,
- O-males suffer from a higher leucocyte–erythrocyte
- ratio, and higher haemoprotid parasitaemia,
- in particular in relation to vector encounter
- rate. Furthermore, O-males (i.e. successful tick
- defenders) with more haemoprotid parasites
- remaining in their blood stream were in better
- body condition, whereas this did not apply
- in NO-males, demonstrating that the adaptive
- immunoreaction can—in the short term—be
- energetically even more costly than being moderately
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- <h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Costly parasite resistance: a genotype-dependent handicap in sand lizards?</h1>
- <p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Olsson, Mats</span> and <span class="person_name">Wapstra, Erik</span> and <span class="person_name">Madsen, Thomas</span> and <span class="person_name">Ujvari, Beata</span> and <span class="person_name">Rugfelt, Carl</span> (2005) <xhtml:em>Costly parasite resistance: a genotype-dependent handicap in sand lizards?</xhtml:em> Biology Letters, 1 . pp. 375-377. ISSN 1744-9561</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2194/1/CostlyParasite.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2194/1/CostlyParasite.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />81Kb</td><td><form method="get" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/request_doc"><input accept-charset="utf-8" value="2783" name="docid" type="hidden" /><div class=""><input value="Request a copy" name="_action_null" class="ep_form_action_button" onclick="return EPJS_button_pushed( '_action_null' )" type="submit" /> </div></form></td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2005.0339">http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2005.0339</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Male sand lizards (Lacerta agilis) with a specific
- restriction fragment length polymorphism fragment
- in their major histocompatibility complex
- (MHC) genotype (‘O-males’) are more resistant
- to ectoparasites (a tick, Ixodes ricinus) than are
- males that lack this fragment (‘NO-males’).
- However, emerging evidence suggests that
- such adaptive immune responses are costly,
- here manifested by reduced body condition and
- a compromised defence against secondary infections
- by haemoprotid parasites that use the
- ticks as vectors. Subsequent to tick encounter,
- O-males suffer from a higher leucocyte–erythrocyte
- ratio, and higher haemoprotid parasitaemia,
- in particular in relation to vector encounter
- rate. Furthermore, O-males (i.e. successful tick
- defenders) with more haemoprotid parasites
- remaining in their blood stream were in better
- body condition, whereas this did not apply
- in NO-males, demonstrating that the adaptive
- immunoreaction can—in the short term—be
- energetically even more costly than being moderately
- parasitized. In agreement with Zahavian
- handicap theory, O-males had a (marginally)
- higher reproductive success than males that
- lacked this fragment.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">MHC; costly parasite resistance;
- handicap; sand lizard</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/270203.html">270000 Biological Sciences > 270200 Genetics > 270203 Population and Ecological Genetics</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">2194</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Dr Erik Wapstra</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">15 Oct 2007 14:19</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=2194;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=2194">item control page</a></p>
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