期刊
HEREDITY
卷 105, 期 3, 页码 282-289出版社
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2010.1
关键词
crickets; genetic correlations; heritability; inbreeding depression; immunity; sexual conflict
资金
- National Science Foundation [IOS-0543254, IOS-0718140]
- Royal Society
- Illinois State University
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/B501398/2] Funding Source: researchfish
Inbreeding is assumed to have negative effects on fitness, including the reduced ability to withstand immune challenges. We examined the immunological consequences of inbreeding in decorated crickets, Gryllodes sigillatus, by comparing lytic activity, phenoloxidase (PO) activity, and encapsulation ability of crickets from eight inbred lines with that of crickets from the outbred founder population. Surprisingly, crickets from inbred lines had a greater encapsulation ability compared with crickets from the outbred population. We suggest that because inbred crickets have reduced reproductive effort, they may, therefore, have the option of devoting more resources to this form of immunity than outbred individuals. We also found that both inbred and outbred females had higher immunity than males in PO activity and implant darkness. This result supports the hypothesis that females should devote more effort to somatic maintenance and immunity than males. PO activity and implant darkness were heritable in both males and females, but lytic activity was only heritable in females. Males and females differed in the heritability of, and genetic correlations among, immune traits, suggesting that differences in selective pressures on males and females may have resulted in a sexual conflict over optimal immune trait values. Heredity (2010) 105, 282-289; doi:10.1038/hdy.2010.1; published online 3 February 2010
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