• DOI:10.1007/s00442-005-0113-5
Corpus ID: 13394657

Responding to inflammatory challenges is less costly for a successful avian invader, the house sparrow (Passer domesticus), than its less-invasive congener

@article{Lee2005RespondingTI,
  title={Responding to inflammatory challenges is less costly for a successful avian invader, the house sparrow (Passer domesticus), than its less-invasive congener},
  author={K. A. Lee and L. Martin and M. Wikelski},
  journal={Oecologia},
  year={2005},
  volume={145},
  pages={243-250}
}

• K. A. Lee, L. Martin, M. Wikelski
• Published 2005
• Biology, Medicine
• Oecologia

When introduced into new regions, invading organisms leave many native pathogens behind and also encounter evolutionarily novel disease threats. In the presence of predominantly novel pathogens that have not co-evolved to avoid inducing a strong host immune response, costly and potentially dangerous defenses such as the systemic inflammatory response could become more harmful than protective to the host. We therefore hypothesized that introduced populations exhibiting dampened inflammatory… Expand

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