The role of juvenile hormone in immune function and pheromone production trade-offs: A test of the immunocompetence handicap principle

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1530, 2003, Pages 2257-2261

  Rantala, Markus J ^a   Vainikka, Anssi ^b   Kortet, Raine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Immune function; Immunocompetence handicap hypothesis; Juvenile hormone; Pheromones; Sexual selection; Tenebrio molitor

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHEROMONE; SEX HORMONE;

BEETLE; HANDICAP PRINCIPLE; HONEST SIGNALING; HORMONE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCAPSULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INJECTION; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TENEBRIO;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 0242552338     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2472     Document Type: Article

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