Costly parasite resistance: A genotype-dependent handicap in sand lizards?

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 375-377

  Olsson, Mats ^a,b   Wapstra, Erik ^c   Madsen, Thomas ^d   Ujvari, Beata ^d   Rugfelt, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Costly parasite resistance; Handicap; MHC; Sand lizard

Indexed keywords

GENOTYPE; LIZARD; PARASITE RESISTANCE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; IMMUNITY; IXODES RICINUS; LACERTA AGILIS; LEUKOCYTE; LIZARD; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ACARI; IXODES RICINUS; LACERTA AGILIS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 25644444528     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0339     Document Type: Article

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