Mothers produce less aggressive sons with altered immunity when there is a threat of disease during pregnancy

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1659, 2009, Pages 1047-1054

  Curno, Olivia ^a   Behnke, Jerzy M ^a   McElligott, Alan G ^a,b   Reader, Tom ^a   Barnard, Chris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disease susceptibility; Host parasite; Life history; Maternal effect; Trade off

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; LIFE HISTORY; MATERNAL EFFECT; PREGNANCY; PROTOZOAN; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA MICROTI; MUS;

EID: 60049091053     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1612     Document Type: Article

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