10.5061/DRYAD.1684V7T1
Cisarovsky, Gabriel
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Schmid-Hempel, Paul
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Sadd, Ben M.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Data from: Robustness of the outcome of adult bumblebee infection with a
trypanosome parasite after varied parasite exposures during larval
development
Dryad
dataset
2012
genotype-by-genotype interaction
Social immunity
immune priming
Crithidia bombi
Host-parasite interaction
environmental dependence
bumblebee
2012-03-13T17:53:26Z
2012-03-13T17:53:26Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02507.x
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The outcome of defence by the invertebrate immunity has recently been
shown to be more complex than previously thought. In particular, the
outcome is affected by biotic and abiotic environmental variation, host
genotype, parasite genotype, and their interaction. Knowledge of
conditions under which environmental variation affects the outcome of an
infection is one important question that relates to this complexity. We
here use the model system of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris infected by
the trypanosome, Crithidia bombi, combined with a split-colony design to
test the influence of the parasite environment during larval rearing on
adult resistance. We find that genotype-specific interactions are
maintained, and adult resistance is not influenced. This demonstrates that
environmental dependence of bumblebee-trypanosome interactions is not
ubiquitous, and yet unknown constraints will maintain standard
co-evolutionary dynamics under such environmental deviations.
Infection loads of bumblebee workersInfection load of bumblebee workers.
Data were obtained by quantitative PCR.data_summer2010_JEB.xlsx