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| Title |
Genotype and diet shape resistance and tolerance across distinct phases of bacterial infection
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| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, March 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-14-56 |
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| Authors |
Virginia M Howick, Brian P Lazzaro |
| Abstract |
Host defense against pathogenic infection is composed of resistance and tolerance. Resistance is the ability of the host to limit a pathogen burden, whereas tolerance is the ability to limit the deleterious effects of a given pathogen burden. This distinction recognizes that the fittest host does not necessarily have the most aggressive immune system, suggesting that host-pathogen co-evolution involves more than an escalating arms race between pathogen virulence factors and host antimicrobial activity. How a host balances resistance and tolerance and how this balance influences the evolution of host defense remains unanswered. In order to determine how genotype-by-diet interactions and evolutionary costs of each strategy may constrain the evolution of host defense, we measured survival, fecundity, and pathogen burden over five days in ten genotypes of Drosophila melanogaster reared on two diets and infected with the Gram-negative bacterial pathogen Providencia rettgeri. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 14 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 21% |
| Unknown | 4 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 57% |
| Scientists | 5 | 36% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 133 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 130 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 42 | 32% |
| Researcher | 24 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 18 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 8% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 15 | 11% |
| Unknown | 16 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 71 | 53% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 21 | 16% |
| Environmental Science | 7 | 5% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 7 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 2% |
| Unknown | 21 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 May 2014.
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#3,403,256
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Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#911
of 3,714 outputs
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#32,820
of 237,444 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#17
of 72 outputs
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