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SUMMARY:Dr. George Lozano
DESCRIPTION:Immunoecology of ruffs, Philomachus pugnax , and related issues



Dr. George Lozano
Estonian Centre for Evoluationary Ecology



Host: Forbes Lab



Abstract: Resources, time and energy can be allocated towards growth, reproduction, and self-maintenance. Investment in immune function is essentially a choice of self-maintenance over growth and reproduction, and as such, it ought to vary predictably with the organism’s ecology and life history. Most species have only 2 main life history strategies, male and female, but some species have one or more alternative morphs, usually male, that have unique morphological, ecological, developmental, behavioural, life-history, and physiological profiles that shift the balance between self-maintenance and other requirements.The ruff (Philomachus pugnax), is unique among birds, in that there are 3 types of males; independents, satelittes and female mimics (faeders). In this talk, I shall mostly describe a series of immunoecological studies using the ruff as a model system.



immunoecology - life history - alternative morphs
LOCATION:4440Q Carleton Technology and Training Centre, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
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