Habitat effects on physiological stress response in nestling blue tits are mediated through parasitism

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-203

  Arriero, Elena ^a,c   Moreno, Juan ^a   Merino, Santiago ^a   Martínez, Javier ^a,b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RESPONSE; HABITAT QUALITY; NESTLING; PARASITISM; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; STRESS;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; ARTHROPODS; CHAPERONIN 60; ECOSYSTEM; PASSERIFORMES; STRESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AVES; CALLIPHORIDAE; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; LEUCOCYTOZOON; PROTOCALLIPHORA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 39449087648     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524393     Document Type: Article

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