Biomarkers of animal health: integrating nutritional ecology, endocrine ecophysiology, ecoimmunology, and geospatial ecology

Biomarkers of animal health: integrating nutritional ecology, endocrine ecophysiology, ecoimmunology, and geospatial ecology

Diverse biomarkers including stable isotope, hormonal, and ecoimmunological assays are powerful tools to assess animal condition. However, an integrative approach is necessary to provide the context essential to understanding how biomarkers reveal animal health in varied ecological conditions. A barrier to such integration is a general lack of awareness of how shared extraction methods from acr...

A new Division of Ecoimmunology and Disease Ecology.

The Division of Ecoimmunology and Disease Ecology (hereafter, DEDE) was founded in January 2014, and its bylaws approved in May of that year, to encourage the growth of research addressing the mechanistic aspects of host-parasite interactions. The purpose of DEDE is to facilitate communication, research, and data-sharing among scientists and promote mentoring and training of students and early ...

The history of ecoimmunology and its integration with disease ecology.

Ecoimmunology is an example of how fruitful integrative approaches to biology can be. Since its emergence, ecoimmunology has sparked constructive debate on a wide range of topics, from the molecular mechanics of immune responses to the role of immunity in shaping the evolution of life histories. To complement the symposium Methods and Mechanisms in Ecoimmunology and commemorate the inception of...

Animal Ecology

Every animal is (1,2) closely linked with a number of other animals living round it, and these relations in an animal community are largely food relations. (3) Man himself is in the centre of such an animal community, as is shown by his relations to plague-carrying rats and (4) to malaria or the diseases of his domestic animals, e.g. liver-rot in sheep. (5) The dependence of man upon other anim...

Ecosystem Health and Sustainable Agriculture Ecology and Animal Health