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Effects Of Maternal Disease History On Provisioning, Brooding, And Offspring Outcomes, Sakura Roberts
Effects Of Maternal Disease History On Provisioning, Brooding, And Offspring Outcomes, Sakura Roberts
Biological Sciences Undergraduate Honors Theses
Disease within a population has the ability to shape the development, evolution, and general performance of a species. Pathogen exposure to hosts can influence their physiology and behavioral patterns to further shape offspring immunity. Parental conditions experienced by offspring during early development can benefit survival and fitness (e.g. increasing provisioning rates), as well as help deter against similar diseases experienced by parents. By testing if parental behavior changes can better prepare offspring outcomes for disease exposure, such as disease severity or duration of infection, we can see the beneficial impacts it has on disease dynamics and host-pathogen processes. Incubation temperature, …
Sex Differences In Host Resistance And Tolerance To The Common Avian Pathogen Mycoplasma Gallisepticum, Chloe Connelly
Sex Differences In Host Resistance And Tolerance To The Common Avian Pathogen Mycoplasma Gallisepticum, Chloe Connelly
Biological Sciences Undergraduate Honors Theses
As we face the threat of global pandemics, one thing becomes clear: biological research is not just about the pursuit of the unknown, but about protecting our future. Understanding disease transmission and predicting pathogen epidemics is more important than ever. Prior studies have indicated that in populations where one sex engages in more social behaviors and movement that sex may drive disease transmission. This supports sex as a factor to consider in the study of epidemic dynamics. Host physiology and immune strategies are another factor that can influence epidemics. Two commonly examined strategies are tolerance and resistance. Tolerance is the …