Infection-nutrition feedbacks: fat supports pathogen clearance but pathogens reduce fat in a wild mammal.

Autor:	Smiley RA; Haub School of the Environment and Natural Resources, 804 E Fremont Street, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.; Department of Zoology and Physiology, Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Wyoming, 1000 University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071, USA., Wagler BL; Haub School of the Environment and Natural Resources, 804 E Fremont Street, Laramie, WY 82071, USA., Edwards WH; Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, Wildlife Health Laboratory,1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY 82072, USA., Jennings-Gaines J; Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, Wildlife Health Laboratory,1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY 82072, USA., Luukkonen K; Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, Wildlife Health Laboratory,1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY 82072, USA., Robbins K; Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, Wildlife Health Laboratory,1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY 82072, USA., Johnson M; Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, Wildlife Health Laboratory,1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY 82072, USA., Courtemanch AB; Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, 420 N Cache Street, Jackson, WY 83001, USA., Mong TW; Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, 2820 WY-120, Cody, WY 82414, USA., Lutz D; Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, 260 Buena Vista Drive, Lander, WY 82520, USA., McWhirter D; Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, 420 N Cache Street, Jackson, WY 83001, USA., Malmberg JL; Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wyoming, 1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY 82070, USA., Lowrey B; US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, 2327 University Way, Bozeman, MT 59715, USA., Monteith KL; Haub School of the Environment and Natural Resources, 804 E Fremont Street, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.; Department of Zoology and Physiology, Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Wyoming, 1000 University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Proceedings. Biological sciences [Proc Biol Sci] 2024 Aug; Vol. 291 (2027), pp. 20240636. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 17.
DOI:	10.1098/rspb.2024.0636
Abstrakt:	Though far less obvious than direct effects (clinical disease or mortality), the indirect influences of pathogens are difficult to estimate but may hold fitness consequences. Here, we disentangle the directional relationships between infection and energetic reserves, evaluating the hypotheses that energetic reserves influence infection status of the host and that infection elicits costs to energetic reserves. Using repeated measures of fat reserves and infection status in individual bighorn sheep ( Ovis canadensis ) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, we documented that fat influenced ability to clear pathogens ( Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae ) and infection with respiratory pathogens was costly to fat reserves. Costs of infection approached, and in some instances exceeded, costs of rearing offspring to independence in terms of reductions to fat reserves. Fat influenced probability of clearing pathogens, pregnancy and over-winter survival; from an energetic perspective, an animal could survive for up to 23 days on the amount of fat that was lost to high levels of infection. Cost of pathogens may amplify trade-offs between reproduction and survival. In the absence of an active outbreak, the influence of resident pathogens often is overlooked. Nevertheless, the energetic burden of pathogens likely has consequences for fitness and population dynamics, especially when food resources are insufficient.
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