Do leucocytes reflect condition in nestling burrowing parrots Cyanoliseus patagonus in the wild?

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 176-181

  Masello, Juan F ^a   Choconi, R Gustavo ^b   Helmer, Matthias ^a   Kremberg, Thomas ^a   Lubjuhn, Thomas ^c   Quillfeldt, Petra ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body condition; H L ratio; Haematology; Immunology; Innate immunity; Leucocyte counts; Patagonian Conure; Psittaciformes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BURROWING SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOLISEUS PATAGONUS; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PARROT; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; WILD ANIMAL;

AVES; CYANOLISEUS PATAGONUS; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACIFORMES;

EID: 57549113147     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.09.018     Document Type: Article

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