Haematological health state indices of reproducing Great Tits: Methodology and sources of natural variation

Functional Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 700-707

  Ots, I ^a,b   Murumagi A ^a   Horak P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Estonian Inst of Zoology and Botany   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Leucocytes; Measurement precision; Parus major; Plasma proteins

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOASSAY; HEALTH STATUS; PASSERINE;

HAEMOPROTEUS; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031715418     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00219.x     Document Type: Article

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