Immune activation rapidly mirrored in a secondary sexual trait

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5616, 2003, Pages 103-

  Faivre, Bruno ^a   Grégoire, Arnaud ^a   Préault, Marina ^a   Cézilly, Frank ^a   Sorci, Gabriele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

IMMUNE RESPONSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIRD; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SHEEP ERYTHROCYTE; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; BEAK; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOIDS; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNIZATION; LUTEIN; MALE; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0242416951     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1081802     Document Type: Short Survey

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9. We thank F. Belleville-Nabet and F. Dubois for biochemical analyses of carotenoids. This work was supported by the Institut Français pour la Biodiversité, CNRS (GDR 215S "Ecotogie Comportementale" and ACI Jeunes Chercheurs to G.S.), ONCFS, and the Conseil Régional de Bourgogne.