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- Introduction
- "Die Pest" - the Bubonic plague
- A viewpoint
- Darwin's principles
- What do we expect?
- "Mechanism" versus "function"
- "Fitness" has many components!
- Cost of defense (1)
- Cost of defense (2)
- A trade-off
- What kind of costs?
- Cost of using the defense (1)
- Encapsulation - a general response
- Effect of work on immune defense
- Enforcing the immune response
- A survival cost of immunity
- Cost of defense (3)
- Table: cost of using the defense (1)
- Table: cost of using the defense (2)
- Costs of using the defense (2)
- Worse competitor
- Table: cost of evolving the defense "machinery"
- Different interests of the sexes
- Immune defense and sexual selection studies
- Specificity (1)
- Specificity (2)
- Auto-immunity / self-reactivity
- Waypoint (1)
- Strategies: a different view
- Speed and cost of response (1)
- Speed and cost of response (2)
- Limits to removal (1)
- Limits to removal (2)
- Waypoint (2)
- Parasite interference (1)
- Parasite interference (2)
- Examples of immune evasions by parasites
- Strategically robust defenses?
- Principles of strategic robustness
- Summary
- Consequences for medicine
- (Not) the end...
Topics Covered
- Why immune defense matters
- Asking for evolutionary reasons and constraints
- Using immune defenses is very costly for the individual
- The nature of the costs
- Differences among the sexes
- Specific defenses and their impact
- What would be the best defense
- Parasites are interfering
- The consequences for medicine
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Schmid-Hempel, P. (2020, August 16). The evolutionary ecology of immunity [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved October 12, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/GKKN2185.Export Citation (RIS)
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Financial Disclosures
- Prof. Paul Schmid-Hempel has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.