Genetic and environmental components of phenotypic variation in immune response and body size of a colonial bird, Delichon urbica (the house martin)

Heredity

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-83

  Christe, Philippe ^a,d   Møller, Anders Pape ^a   Saino, Nicola ^b   De Lope, Florentino ^c  

^a UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Additive variance; Coloniality; Environmental variance; Heritability; Parasites; T cell response

Indexed keywords

FORELIMB; GENETIC VARIANCE; HERITABILITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INOCULATION; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITE RESISTANCE; PARASITISM; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; PHENOTYPE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AVES; DELICHON; DELICHON URBICA; OECIACUS HIRUNDINIS;

EID: 0033842067     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00732.x     Document Type: Article

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