Responding to inflammatory challenges is less costly for a successful avian invader, the house sparrow (Passer domesticus), than its less-invasive congener

Oecologia

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 244-251

  Lee, Kelly A ^a   Martin II, Lynn B ^a,b   Wikelski, Martin C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Defense strategies; Immunology; Inflammatory response; Invasion biology; Passer montanus; Sickness behavior

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

EGG PRODUCTION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; PASSERINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENIC STRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SPARROW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, CONGENIC; BIRD DISEASES; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; REPRODUCTION; SPARROWS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSER MONTANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 27444438712     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0113-5     Document Type: Article

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