Body reserves influence allocation to immune responses in capital breeding female northern elephant seals

• Published in: Functional Ecology
• Main Authors: Peck, Hannah E., Costa, Daniel P., Crocker, Daniel E.
• Other Authors: Goldbogen, Jeremy, Office of Naval Research
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Elephant Seals
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12504; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2F1365-2435.12504; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2435.12504; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/1365-2435.12504; https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2435.12504

Summary Mounting an immune response requires substantial energy. Ecological immunology theory predicts allocation trade‐offs between reproductive effort and immune responses under conditions of energy limitation. Little is known about the impact of capital breeding strategies on energy allocation to...