Data and code from: The macroecology of immunity: predominant influence of climate on invertebrate immune response

The immune system serves as the first line of defense against attack by parasites. With the ever-increasing rate of disease, epidemiologic models that consider geographic variation in the strength of immune responses among individuals and populations could prove useful. Although there is increasing interest in the macroecology of parasitism and infectious diseases, we know very little about the macroecology of immune responses. Characteristics of the host, exposure to parasites, and environmental factors can all affect immunity, but how these factors interact to shape spatial variation in the strength of immune responses remains unexplored. We captured odonates (dragonflies and damselflies) and their conspicuous ectoparasitic mites across a geographic area spanning two biomes in eastern Canada. We then conducted immune response bioassays on 1,237 individuals from 63 odonate species. We estimated the strength of a key aspect of odonate immune response against ectoparasites by i..., , # Dryad dataset

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.m63xsj4fb](10.5061/dryad.m63xsj4fb)

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The macroecology of immunity: predominant influence of climate on invertebrate immune response

Adam Z. Hasik^1^ (ORCiD ID 0000-0002-4069-7186), Maggie Blondeau^2,3^, Jake Harvey^2,3^, Tania Groleau^2^, Tonia de Bellis^2,4^, Eric J. Pedersen^2^, Alex Córdoba-Aguilar^5^, Katie Marshall^6^, Laura Ferguson^7^, Jean-Philippe Lessard^2^

^1^ Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

^2^ Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada

^3^ Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

^4^ Department of Biology, Dawson College, Montreal, QC, Canada

^5^ Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico

^6^ Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

^7^ Departm...,