Nestling immunocompetence is affected by captivity but not investigator handling

Condor

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 920-928

  Butler, Michael W ^a,b   Dufty Jr , Alfred M ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Captivity; Development; Handling; Immunocompetence; Nestling; Phytohemagglutinin; Stress

Indexed keywords

AVES; FALCO SPARVERIUS; RATTUS; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 38349066172     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2007)109[920:NIIABC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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