Inter-sexual differences in the immune response of Eurasian kestrel nestlings under food shortage

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-101

  Fargallo, Juan A ^a,b   Laaksonen, Toni ^a   Pöyri, Ville ^a   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clutch size; Immunity; Parental effort; Quality vs. quantity of offspring; Sex allocation

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NESTLING; PARENTAL CARE; SEX ALLOCATION;

FALCO TINNUNCULUS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0036169486     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00290.x     Document Type: Article

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