The immunological function of allosuckling

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 319-324

  Roulin, Alexandre ^a   Heeb, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alloparental care; Allosuckling; Antibody; Human; Immunology; Lactation; Mammal; Parent offspring conflict; Pathogen

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032835949     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00091.x     Document Type: Article

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