Bateman's principle and immunity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1493, 2002, Pages 867-872

  Rolff, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fitness; Immunocompetence; Life history trajectories; Parasite mediated sexual selection; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; IMMUNITY; PARASITE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ARTICLE; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE HISTORY; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INSECTS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344127399     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.1959     Document Type: Article

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