Abstract:Rapid recognition of disease cues is essential for preventing pathogenic infections and for disease management in group-living animals. Healthy individuals across taxa can detect illness in other conspecifics and adjust their responses to limit further infections of themselves and the group. However, little is known about potential changes in chemical phenotypes due to disease, which may mediate these responses. We here asked whether individual immune experience resulting from wounding or the injection of heat… Show more
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