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    <issue>1945</issue>
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    <publisherName>The Royal Society</publisherName>
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    <title language="eng">Evidence for reduced immune gene diversity and activity during the evolution of termites</title>
    <abstract language="eng">The evolution of biological complexity is associated with the emergence of bespoke immune systems that maintain and protect organism integrity. Unlike the well-studied immune systems of cells and individuals, little is known about the origins of immunity during the transition to eusociality, a major evolutionary transition comparable to the evolution of multicellular organisms from single-celled ancestors. We aimed to tackle this by characterizing the immune gene repertoire of 18 cockroach and termite species, spanning the spectrum of solitary, subsocial and eusocial lifestyles. We find that key transitions in termite sociality are correlated with immune gene family contractions. In cross-species comparisons of immune gene expression, we find evidence for a caste-specific social defence system in termites, which appears to operate at the expense of individual immune protection. Our study indicates that a major transition in organismal complexity may have entailed a fundamental reshaping of the immune system optimized for group over individual defence.</abstract>
    <parentTitle language="eng">Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Series B, Biological sciences</parentTitle>
    <identifier type="doi">10.1098/rspb.2020.3168</identifier>
    <identifier type="issn">0962-8452</identifier>
    <identifier type="urn">urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-538878</identifier>
    <identifier type="issn">1471-2954</identifier>
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    <licence>Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International</licence>
    <author>Shulin He</author>
    <author>Thorben Sieksmeyer</author>
    <author>Y. Che</author>
    <author>M. A. E. Mora</author>
    <author>P. Stiblik</author>
    <author>Ronald Banasiak</author>
    <author>M. C. Harrison</author>
    <author>J. Sobotnik</author>
    <author>Z. Wang</author>
    <author>P. R. Johnston</author>
    <author>Dino Peter McMahon</author>
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      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Social insect</value>
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      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Subsocial</value>
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    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Cockroach</value>
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    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
      <type>uncontrolled</type>
      <value>Major transition</value>
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    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
      <type>uncontrolled</type>
      <value>Contraction</value>
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    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Expansion</value>
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    <collection role="ddc" number="628">Sanitär- und Kommunaltechnik; Umwelttechnik</collection>
    <collection role="institutes" number="">4 Material und Umwelt</collection>
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    <id>55002</id>
    <completedYear/>
    <publishedYear>2022</publishedYear>
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    <language>eng</language>
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    <issue>1</issue>
    <volume>22</volume>
    <type>article</type>
    <publisherName>Springer Nature</publisherName>
    <publisherPlace>London, UK</publisherPlace>
    <creatingCorporation>BioMed Central</creatingCorporation>
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    <title language="eng">Eating in a losing cause: Limited benefit of modifed macronutrient consumption following infection in the oriental cockroach Blatta orientalis</title>
    <abstract language="eng">Background: Host–pathogen interactions can lead to dramatic changes in host feeding behaviour. One aspect of this includes self-medication, where infected individuals consume substances such as toxins or alter their macronutrient consumption to enhance immune competence. Another widely adopted animal response to infection is illness-induced anorexia, which is thought to assist host immunity directly or by limiting the nutritional resources available to pathogens. Here, we recorded macronutrient preferences of the global pest cockroach, Blatta orientalis to investigate how shifts in host macronutrient dietary preference and quantity of carbohydrate (C) and protein (P) interact with immunity following bacterial infection.&#13;
Results: We fnd that B. orientalis avoids diets enriched for P under normal conditions, and that high P diets reduce cockroach survival in the long term. However, following bacterial challenge, cockroaches signifcantly reduced their overall nutrient intake, particularly of carbohydrates, and increased the relative ratio of protein (P:C) consumed.  Surprisingly, these behavioural shifts had a limited efect on cockroach immunity and survival, with minor changes to immune protein abundance and antimicrobial activity between individuals placed on diferent diets, regardless of infection status.&#13;
Conclusions: We show that cockroach feeding behaviour can be modulated by a pathogen, resulting in an illness-induced anorexia-like feeding response and a shift from a C-enriched to a more P:C equal diet. However, our results also indicate that such responses do not provide signifcant immune protection in B. orientalis, suggesting that the host’s dietary shift might also result from random rather than directed behaviour. The lack of an apparent beneft of the shift in feeding behaviour highlights a possible reduced importance of diet in immune regulation in these invasive animals, although further investigations employing pathogens with alternative infection strategies are warranted.</abstract>
    <parentTitle language="eng">BMC ecology and evolution</parentTitle>
    <identifier type="doi">10.1186/s12862-022-02007-8</identifier>
    <identifier type="urn">urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-550022</identifier>
    <identifier type="issn">2730-7182</identifier>
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    <enrichment key="date_peer_review">13.06.2022</enrichment>
    <licence>Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International</licence>
    <author>T. Sieksmeyer</author>
    <author>S. He</author>
    <author>Margy Alejandra Esparza Mora</author>
    <author>S. Jiang</author>
    <author>V. Petrasiunaite</author>
    <author>B. Kuropka</author>
    <author>Ronald Banasiak</author>
    <author>M. J. Julseth</author>
    <author>C. Weise</author>
    <author>P. R. Johnston</author>
    <author>A. Rodriguez-Rojas</author>
    <author>Dino Peter McMahon</author>
    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
      <type>uncontrolled</type>
      <value>Animal immune system</value>
    </subject>
    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
      <type>uncontrolled</type>
      <value>A key interface</value>
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    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
      <type>uncontrolled</type>
      <value>Host and symbiont ecology</value>
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    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
      <type>uncontrolled</type>
      <value>Behavioural mechanisms</value>
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    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
      <type>uncontrolled</type>
      <value>Biotic environment</value>
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    <collection role="institutes" number="">4 Material und Umwelt</collection>
    <collection role="themenfelder" number="">Umwelt</collection>
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    <thesisPublisher>Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)</thesisPublisher>
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    <id>59446</id>
    <completedYear/>
    <publishedYear>2023</publishedYear>
    <thesisYearAccepted/>
    <language>eng</language>
    <pageFirst>1</pageFirst>
    <pageLast>16</pageLast>
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    <edition/>
    <issue>1</issue>
    <volume>13</volume>
    <type>article</type>
    <publisherName>Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature</publisherName>
    <publisherPlace>London</publisherPlace>
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    <title language="eng">Defensive behavior is linked to altered surface chemistry following infection in a termite society</title>
    <abstract language="eng">The care-kill response determines whether a sick individual will be treated or eliminated from an insect society, but little is known about the physiological underpinnings of this process. We exploited the stepwise infection dynamics of an entomopathogenic fungus in a termite to explore how care-kill transitions occur, and identify the chemical cues behind these shifts. We found collective responses towards pathogen-injected individuals to vary according to severity and timing of pathogen challenge, with elimination, via cannibalism, occurring sooner in response to a severe active infection. However, injection with inactivated fungal blastospores also resulted in increased albeit delayed cannibalism, even though it did not universally cause host death. This indicates that the decision to eliminate an individual is triggered before pathogen viability or terminal disease status has been established. We then compared the surface chemistry of differently challenged individuals, finding increased amounts of long-chained methyl-branched alkanes with similar branching patterns in individuals injected with both dead and viable fungal blastospores, with the latter showing the largest increase. This coincided with the highest amounts of observed cannibalism as well as signs of severe moribundity. Our study provides new mechanistic insight into the emergent collective behaviors involved in the disease defense of a termite society.</abstract>
    <parentTitle language="eng">Scientific Reports</parentTitle>
    <identifier type="doi">10.1038/s41598-023-42947-9</identifier>
    <identifier type="urn">urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-594468</identifier>
    <identifier type="issn">2045-2322</identifier>
    <enrichment key="opus.source">publish</enrichment>
    <enrichment key="date_peer_review">07.02.2024</enrichment>
    <licence>Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International</licence>
    <author>Margy Alejandra Esparza Mora</author>
    <author>Tilottama Mazumdar</author>
    <author>Shixiong Jiang</author>
    <author>Renate Radek</author>
    <author>Julian N. Thiem</author>
    <author>Linshan Feng</author>
    <author>Vesta Petrašiūnaitė</author>
    <author>Ronald Banasiak</author>
    <author>Marek Golian</author>
    <author>Melanie Gleske</author>
    <author>Lucas Christophe</author>
    <author>Andreas Springer</author>
    <author>Jan Buellesbach</author>
    <author>Dino Peter McMahon</author>
    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
      <type>uncontrolled</type>
      <value>Termite</value>
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    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
      <type>uncontrolled</type>
      <value>Social Immunity</value>
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    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>CHC</value>
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      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Pathogen</value>
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