Female Iberian wall lizards prefer male scents that signal a better cell-mediated immune response

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 404-406

  López, Pilar ^a   Martín, José ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chemoreception; Femoral glands; Immune response; Mate choice

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL CUE; CHEMORECEPTION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LIZARD; MATING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALIA; PODARCIS; PODARCIS HISPANICA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 29144508397     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0360     Document Type: Article

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