Gender differences and individual variation in the immune system of the scorpionfly Panorpa vulgaris (Insecta: Mecoptera)

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-12

  Kurtz, Joachim ^a   Wiesner, Andreas ^b   Götz, Peter ^b   Sauer, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Gender differences; Hemocytes; Immunocompetence; Invertebrate immunity; Lysozyme; Phagocytosis; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

LYSOZYME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INSECT; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MECOPTERA; PANORPA VULGARIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033968813     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-305X(99)00057-9     Document Type: Article

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