Constitutive innate immunity is a component of the pace-of-life syndrome in tropical birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1573, 2005, Pages 1715-1720

  Tieleman, B Irene ^a,d   Williams, Joseph B ^b   Ricklefs, Robert E ^a   Klasing, Kirk C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bactericidal activity; Immune function; Life history; Metabolic rate; Tropics

Indexed keywords

IMMUNITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BIRD; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIFE HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TECHNIQUE; TROGLODYTES AEDON;

AVES; TROGLODYTES AEDON;

EID: 26244439669     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3155     Document Type: Article

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