Dietary amino acids influence plumage traits and immune responses of male house sparrows, Passer domesticus, but not as expected

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1171-1181

  Poston, Joseph P ^a,c   Hasselquist, Dennis ^b   Stewart, Ian R K ^a   Westneat, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CATAWBA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; DIET; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; PASSERINE; PLUMAGE;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 27144446340     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.02.015     Document Type: Article

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