No evidence of paternal genetic contribution to nestling cell-mediated immunity in the North American barn swallow

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 839-845

  Kleven, Oddmund ^a   Jacobsen, Frode ^a   Izadnegahdar, Rasa ^b   Robertson, Raleigh J ^b   Lifjeld, Jan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; IMMUNITY; NESTLING; PASSERINE;

AVES; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 33645115007     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.06.019     Document Type: Article

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