Abstract
This book is a comprehensive book, which has been prepared to help understand the energy interconnection among immune response and ecology, biological systems, physiology, and evolution. This specific book has been written in a unique manner and attempts to provide an “all-round” perspective of eco-immunological concepts by using a simple collection of articles. The authors have provided an overview of the role of other sciences in immunology. The book is a collection of articles that were written by scientists in departments of life sciences, experimental and diagnostics, immunology, and ecology, collected by Davide Malagoli and Enzo Ottaviani. The topics included in this book are classified into nine chapters. Its major strength is the complete coverage of eco-immunological concepts. Also, all relevant issues from basic to advanced concepts are explained. Immune systems need energy for function and response. The tight interconnection between energy availability and immune response is one of the main focuses of eco-immunology that is described in this book.