Pre-laying nutrition mediates maternal effects on offspring immune capacity and growth in the pied flycatcher

Oecologia

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 727-735

  Moreno, Juan ^a   Lobato, Elisa ^a   Morales, Judith ^a   Merino, Santiago ^a   Martínez De La Puente, Josué ^a   Tomás, Gustavo ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive immune capacity; Cross fostering; Ectoparasites; Egg quality; Maternal antibody transmission

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN Y;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBODY; ECTOPARASITE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; GROWTH; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MATERNAL EFFECT; NESTLING; NUTRITION; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MITE; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MALE; MITES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SONGBIRDS;

ACARI; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA;

EID: 46949100748     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1029-7     Document Type: Article

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