The perils and prospects of using phytohaemagglutinin in evolutionary ecology

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 653-655

  Kennedy, Malcolm W ^a   Nager, Ruedi G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

BIRD; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; BIRD; DRUG EFFECT; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOLUTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METHODOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOLUTION; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33751016629     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2006.09.017     Document Type: Short Survey

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