Fever and sickness behaviour vary among congeneric rodents

Functional Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 68-77

  Martin II, Lynn B ^a,b   Weil, Zachary M ^b   Nelson, Randy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute phase response; Immune; Lipopolysaccharide; Peromyscus; Trade off

Indexed keywords

IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOASSAY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; RODENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PEROMYSCUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 38149142368     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01347.x     Document Type: Article

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