Costs of immunity: Immune responsiveness reduces survival in a vertebrate

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1542, 2004, Pages 925-930

  Hanssen, Sveinn Are ^a,b,c   Hasselquist, Dennis ^b   Folstad, Ivar ^a   Erikstad, Kjell Einar ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Diphtheria; Eiders; Local survival; Sheep red blood cells; Tetanus; Toxoid

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DIPHTHERIA TOXOID; TETANUS TOXOID;

COST; FITNESS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SHEEP; SURVIVAL TIME; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; OVIS ARIES; SOMATERIA; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2342618188     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2678     Document Type: Article

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