Which chick is tasty to parasites? The importance of host immunology vs. parasite life history

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-81

  Roulin, Alexandre ^a   Brinkhof, Martin W G ^b   Bize, Pierre ^b   Richner, Heinz ^b   Jungi, Thomas W ^b   Bavoux, Christian ^c   Boileau, Nicolas ^c   Burneleau, Guy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Le Marais aux Oiseaux ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Age hierarchy; Ectoparasites; Hatching asynchrony; Host defence; Immunocompetence; Tasty Chick Hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; ECTOPARASITE; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; HATCHING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; SYNCHRONY;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; APUS APUS; APUS MELBA; AVES; CARNUS; CRATAERINA; CRATAERINA MELBAE; FALCO TINNUNCULUS; IXODES RICINUS; PARUS MAJOR; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA;

EID: 0037281437     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2003.00677.x     Document Type: Article

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