Eco-Immunology

1. Introduction to ecoimmunology ; Gregory E. Demas and Randy J. Nelson ; Indiana University and the Ohio State University ; 2. Life history evolution, hormones, and avian immune function ; Dawn M. O'Neal and Ellen D. Ketterson ; Indiana University ; 3. Sickness behavior in vertebrates: Allostasis, life-history modulation, ; and hormonal regulation ; Noah T. Ashley and John C. Wingfield ; University of Alaska, Anchorage and University of California, Davis ; 4. Amphibian Immunity: Staying in tune with the environment ; Louise Rollins-Smith and Douglas Woodhams ; Vanderbilt University ; 5. Immunity in primates within a psychosocial and life span perspective ; Chris Coe ; University of Wisconsin ; 6. Maternal modulation of offspring immune function in vertebrates ; Dennis Hasselquist, Michael Tobler and Jan-Ake Nilsson ; Lund University ; 7. Tradeoffs limiting MHC heterozygosity ; Jason L. Kubinak, Adam C. Nelson, James S. Ruff and Wayne K. Potts ; University of Utah ; 8. The energetics of immunity: Mechanisms of trade-offs in ecoimmunology ; Gregory Demas, Timothy Greives, Emily Chester and Susannah French ; Indiana University, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and Utah State University ; 9. Neuroendocrine mechanisms of seasonal changes in immune function ; Zachary M. Weil and Randy J. Nelson ; The Ohio State University ; 10. Pineal gland and circulatory melatonin in regulation of immune status of seasonally breeding mammals ; C. Haldar, S. Gupta, S. Rai, R. Ahmed and R. Yadav ; Banaras Hindu University ; 11. Environmental challenges and the neuroendocrine mechanisms of stress-induced modulation of host resistance to microbial infection ; Jacqueline W. Mays, Nicole D. Powell, Michael T. Bailey and John F. Sheridan ; The Ohio State University ; 12. Inflammation and behavior ; Keith W. Kelley, Arnaud Aubert and Robert Dantzer ; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and DESCO, Faculte des Sciences ; 13. The importance of physiology for ecoimmunlogy: Lessons from

Gregory E. Demas is Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (CISAB) at Indiana University, where he has been for the last 10 years. Randy J. Nelson holds the Brumbaugh Chair in Brain Research and Teaching at The Ohio State University Medical Center. He is professor and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience and a member of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine at The Ohio State University Medical Center.

"I am heartened by this book. I keenly await the future discoveries that are made possible by its synthetic and empirically grounded approach to the evolutionary ecology of immune defence." -- Andrea L. Graham, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ