Data from: Contemporary variations of immune responsiveness during range expansion of two invasive rodents in Senegal ...

• Main Authors: Diagne, Christophe, Gilot-Fromont, Emmanuelle, Cornet, Stéphane, Husse, Laëtitia, Doucouré, Souleymane, Dalecky, Ambroise, Bâ, Khalilou, Kane, Mamadou, Niang, Youssoupha, Diallo, Mamoudou, Sow, Aliou, Fossati-Gaschignard, Odile, Piry, Sylvain, Artige, Emmaneulle, Sembène, Mbacké, Brouat, Carine, Charbonnel, Nathalie, Artige, Emmanuelle
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2016
• Subjects: Mus musculus domesticus; Mastomys erythroleucus; Rodents; Rattus rattus; Mastomys natalensis; ecological immunology
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.sv680; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.sv680

Biological invasions provide unique opportunities for studying life history trait changes over contemporary time scales. As spatial spread may be related to changes in parasite communities, several hypotheses (such as the evolution of increased competitive ability (EICA) or EICA-refined hypotheses) suggest immune changes in invasive species along invasion gradients. Although native hosts may be subject to similar changes in parasite selection pressures, their immune responses have been rarely investigated in invasion contexts. In this study, we evaluated immune variations for invasive house mice Mus musculus domesticus, invasive black rats Rattus rattus and native rodents Mastomys erythroleucus and Mastomys natalensis along well-characterised invasion gradients in Senegal. We focused on antibody-mediated (natural antibodies and complement) and inflammatory (haptoglobin) responses. One invasion route was considered for each invasive species, and environmental conditions were recorded. Natural-antibody ... : Individual and immune variables of rodents from the black rat invasion route.This file contains all the individual (sex, body mass, age class), methodological (plate factor, initial hemolysis of the serum) and immune (HA, HL, Hp) variables considered in the statistical analyses carried out on rodents from the black rat invasion route.OIK03470 - Rat_invasion_route - HAHL_Hp.csvIndividual and immune variables of rodents from the house mouse invasion route.This file contains all the individual (sex, body mass, age class), methodological (plate factor, initial hemolysis of the serum) and immune (HA, HL, Hp) variables considered in the statistical analyses carried out on rodents from the house mouse invasion route.OIK03470 - Mouse_invasion_route - HAHL_Hp.csv ...