Sex-specific development of cell-mediated immunity under experimentally altered rearing conditions in blue tit nestlings

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1595, 2006, Pages 1759-1764

  Dubiec, Anna ^a,b   Cichoń, Mariusz ^a   Deptuch, Kinga ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Body size; Brood size manipulation; Immune function; Parus caeruleus; Phytohaemagglutinin response

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

BODY MASS; BROOD SIZE; FITNESS; GROWTH; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; NESTLING; PASSERINE; REARING; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FLEDGLING; HATCHING; HINDLIMB; MALE; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; NESTING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SONGBIRD; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AVES; PARUS CAERULEUS;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 33747383171     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3510     Document Type: Article

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