Enhanced C-type lysozyme content of wood duck (Aix sponsa) egg white: An adaptation to cavity nesting?

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 235-245

  Wellman Labadie, Olivier ^a   Picman, Jaroslav ^a   Hincke, Maxwell T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; EGG WHITE; LYSOZYME;

ADAPTATION; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; CAVITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EGG; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NESTING; PH; SURVIVAL; WATERFOWL; WILD POPULATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; DUCK; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NESTING; PH; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DUCKS; EGG WHITE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MURAMIDASE; NESTING BEHAVIOR;

AIX; AIX SPONSA; ANATIDAE; ANSER; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRANTA CANADENSIS; CYGNUS OLOR; GALLUS GALLUS; LOPHODYTES; LOPHODYTES CUCULLATUS;

EID: 39449101859     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524149     Document Type: Article

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