Asymmetric effects of experimental manipulations of social status on individual immune response

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1431-1438

  Hawley, Dana M ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; FIELD METHOD; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PATHOGEN; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS;

CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33744997692     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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