Do individual branches of immune defence correlate? A comparative case study of scavenging and non-scavenging birds

Oikos

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 340-350

  Blount, Jonathan D ^a,b   Houston, David C ^b   Møller, Anders Pape ^c   Wright, Jonathan ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; COST; IMMUNE SYSTEM; SCAVENGER;

AVES; LETHRINIDAE;

EID: 0042412394     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12413.x     Document Type: Article

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