Immune response of nestling warblers varies with extra-pair paternity and temperature

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3833-3840

  Garvin, Julia C ^a   Abroe, Betsy ^a   Pedersen, Marc C ^a   Dunn, Peter O ^a   Whittingham, Linda A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extra pair mating; Geothlypis trichas; Immune response; Male ornaments; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; T LYMPHOCYTE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TEMPERATURE;

AVES; GEOTHLYPIS TRICHAS;

EID: 33749825686     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03042.x     Document Type: Article

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