Experimental removal of the male parent negatively affects growth and immunocompetence in nestling great tits

Oecologia

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 165-173

  Tinne, Snoeijs ^a   Rianne, Pinxten ^a   Marcel, Eens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Immune function; Male removal experiment; Parent offspring conflict; Parus major; Trade off(s)

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

BODY CONDITION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; NESTLING; PASSERINE; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT;

ANIMAL; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; EDEMA; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; ANKLE; BELGIUM; BODY WEIGHT; EDEMA; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; WING;

OVIS ARIES; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 26044462598     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0088-2     Document Type: Article

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