Insects are exposed to a variety of potential pathogens in their environment, many of which can severely impact fitness and health. Consequently, hosts have evolved resistance and tolerance strategies
Evolutionary theory suggests that lifespan-associated alleles should be purged from the gene pool, and yet decades of GWAS and model organism studies have shown they persist. Here, we address one pote
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways with contributions from genes, environmental exposures, and their interactions. While genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in humans have iden
Data used for GxE analyses, where each line represented a reproductive event within a nest box. Columns included year (YEAR), female identity (ID.F) and its age (AGE.F; SY=second-year, ASY=after seco