Variability in leucocyte profiles in thin-billed prions Pachyptila belcheri

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-31

  Quillfeldt, Petra ^a   Ruiz, Gricelda ^b   Rivera, Marcelo Aguilar ^c   Masello, Juan F ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD METROPOLITANA DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Haematology; Leucocyte counts; Procellariiformes; Seabirds; Stress index

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHICK; ENERGY TRANSFER; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRION;

AVES; PACHYPTILA BELCHERI; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 43049121319     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.02.021     Document Type: Article

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