Female bluethroats enhance offspring immunocompetence through extra-pair copulations

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6793, 2000, Pages 296-299

  Johnsen, Arlid ^a,b   Andersen, Vegard ^a   Sunding, Christine ^a   Lifjeld, Jan T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE VALUE; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BIRD; COPULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COPULATION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; SONGBIRDS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

AVES; LUSCINIA SVECICA;

EID: 0034691575     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35018556     Document Type: Article

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