Nestling immune response to phytohaemagglutinin is not heritable in collared flycatchers

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 418-421

  Pitala, Natalia ^a   Gustafsson, Lars ^b   Sendecka, Joanna ^b   Brommer, Jon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal model; Evolutionary quantitative genetics; Heritability; Immunity; Wild population

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HERITABILITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; NESTLING; PASSERINE; SEXUAL SELECTION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; HERITABILITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EDEMA; FORELIMB; GENETICS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; NEWBORN; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EDEMA; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; SONGBIRDS; WING;

EID: 35248844571     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0135     Document Type: Article

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