Testosterone-mediated trade-offs in the old age: A new approach to the immunocompetence handicap and carotenoid-based sexual signalling

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1664, 2009, Pages 2093-2101

  Alonso Alvarez, C ^a   Pérez Rodríguez, Lorenzo ^a,b   Garcia, Jesus T ^a   Viñuela, Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Evolutionary trade offs; Oxidative stress; Senescence; Sexual secondary traits; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; TESTOSTERONE;

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; ANTIOXIDANT; CAROTENOID; HANDICAP PRINCIPLE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SENESCENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING; TESTOSTERONE; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ALECTORIS RUFA;

EID: 66149168837     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1891     Document Type: Article

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