Datasets of "Immune priming depends on age, sex and Wolbachia in the interaction between Armadillidium vulgare and Salmonella"

We firstly primed young and old, symbiotic and asymbiotic males and females, either with a non-lethal low dose of S. enterica, LB broth or without injection (control). 7 days post-injection, we performed a LD50 injection of S. enterica in all individuals and we monitored their survival rates.

We demonstrated that survival capacities (Data_survival.csv) depend on age, gender and Wolbachia: young and old asymbiotic individuals both expressed immune priming (S. enterica-primed individuals survived better than LB-primed and non-primed), with a general decline in the strength of protection in old females, but not in old males, compared to young. When Wolbachia is present, the immune priming protection was observed in old, but not in young symbiotic individuals.