The Density-Dependent Prophylaxis (DDP) hypothesis predicts that organisms can invest more in immunological defence when in high densities. In insects, this hypothesis has been confirmed for many groups. However, most of these studies did not show an overall increase in analysed defence mechanisms and they did not analysed behavioural defences. On the first chapter, we discuss how DDP could have emerged and fixed in different groups, in accord with the degree of sociality. We then propose the hypothesis that there should be changes on DDP investment along a continuum that ranges from strictly solitary insects to eusocial insects. Thus, strictly solitary insects did not develop any plastic response of immune system (neither physiological nor...
This paper analyzed some aspects of the population dynamics and of the nesting behavior of Xylocopa ...
This record describes the occurrence of conflicts between stingless bees of an active colony of Scap...
Pesticides effects on pollinators and representativeness of native species in ecological risk assess...
Prophylactic investment in defense from parasites and pathogens involves a high cost. Thus, it is ex...
Phenotypic plasticity contributes to an organism's ability to respond to changes in its environment....
Viver em colônia ocasiona vários desafios para abelhas sociais, incluindo predadores que buscam seus...
Eusocial insects represent the highest level of social organisation in Arthropods and a highly valua...
Recently, the immune system has been considered a functional trait in Life-History theory. As well a...
3 pagesInternational audienceThe innate immune system provides defence against parasites and pathoge...
Animals and disease-causing microorganisms are in a constant fight. While pathogens evolve ways to b...
The Africanized honey bees (AHB) are known by the high productivity and tolerance against pathogens ...
In social insects, such as bees, different individuals specialise in the collection of different res...
O presente estudo objetivou avaliar e selecionar colônias de Apis mellifera quanto à tolerância a do...
Defence from parasites and pathogens involves a cost. Thus, it is expected that organisms use this o...
The Réunion wasp, Megapolistes olivaceus de Geer, is an insect well integrated in the life of the in...
This paper analyzed some aspects of the population dynamics and of the nesting behavior of Xylocopa ...
This record describes the occurrence of conflicts between stingless bees of an active colony of Scap...
Pesticides effects on pollinators and representativeness of native species in ecological risk assess...
Prophylactic investment in defense from parasites and pathogens involves a high cost. Thus, it is ex...
Phenotypic plasticity contributes to an organism's ability to respond to changes in its environment....
Viver em colônia ocasiona vários desafios para abelhas sociais, incluindo predadores que buscam seus...
Eusocial insects represent the highest level of social organisation in Arthropods and a highly valua...
Recently, the immune system has been considered a functional trait in Life-History theory. As well a...
3 pagesInternational audienceThe innate immune system provides defence against parasites and pathoge...
Animals and disease-causing microorganisms are in a constant fight. While pathogens evolve ways to b...
The Africanized honey bees (AHB) are known by the high productivity and tolerance against pathogens ...
In social insects, such as bees, different individuals specialise in the collection of different res...
O presente estudo objetivou avaliar e selecionar colônias de Apis mellifera quanto à tolerância a do...
Defence from parasites and pathogens involves a cost. Thus, it is expected that organisms use this o...
The Réunion wasp, Megapolistes olivaceus de Geer, is an insect well integrated in the life of the in...
This paper analyzed some aspects of the population dynamics and of the nesting behavior of Xylocopa ...
This record describes the occurrence of conflicts between stingless bees of an active colony of Scap...
Pesticides effects on pollinators and representativeness of native species in ecological risk assess...