Testosterone treatment is immunosuppressive in superb fairy-wrens, yet free-living males with high testosterone are more immunocompetent

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1446, 2000, Pages 883-889

  Peters, Anne ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Honest signalling; Immunocompetence; Life history trade off; Sexual dichromatism; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

BIRD; HONEST SIGNALING; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BIRD; COURTSHIP; ERYTHROCYTE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

MALURUS CYANEUS;

EID: 0034616488     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1085     Document Type: Article

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