Energetic stress, immunosuppression and the costs of an antibody response

Functional Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 912-919

  Svensson, E ^a,c   Raberg L ^a   Koch, C ^b   Hasselquist, D ^a  

^a Ecology Building   (Sweden)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold stress; Energy turnover; Immunocompetence; Parus caeruleus; Physiological trade offs

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PARASITE;

EID: 0032449516     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00271.x     Document Type: Article

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