Growth, developmental stability and immune response in juvenile Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1430, 1999, Pages 1735-1742

  Fair, Jeanne M ^a,b   Hansen, Erpur S ^a   Ricklefs, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental stability; ELISA; Fluctuating asymmetry; Immunocompetence; Japanese quail; Phytohaemagglutinin

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GAMEBIRD; GROWTH; IMMUNE RESPONSE; JUVENILE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HEMATOCRIT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MONOCYTE; MYCOPLASMA; NEWCASTLE DISEASE PARAMYXOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; QUAIL; SHEEP ERYTHROCYTE;

COTURNIX COTURNIX; MYCOPLASMA SYNOVIAE;

EID: 0033533531     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0840     Document Type: Article

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