Immunological change in a parasite-impoverished environment: Divergent signals from four island taxa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Beadell, Jon S ^a,b   Atkins, Colm ^a   Cashion, Erin ^a   Jonker, Michelle ^c   Fleischer, Robert C ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAUNA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; BIRD; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY;

ACROCEPHALUS AEQUINOCTIALIS; AVES; NEOCHMIA TEMPORALIS; ZOSTEROPS LATERALIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BIRDS; HETEROZYGOTE;

EID: 41149132126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000896     Document Type: Article

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