Immune Response, Not Immune Maintenance, Is Energetically Costly in Wild White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 744-752

  Derting, Terry L ^a   Compton, Stephen ^a  

^a MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ENERGY BUDGET; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIFE HISTORY; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ERYTHROCYTE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PEROMYSCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ERYTHROCYTES; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KENTUCKY; MALE; PEROMYSCUS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; OVIS ARIES; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346305111     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375662     Document Type: Article

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