Ageing in a variable habitat: Environmental stress affects senescence in parasite resistance in St Kilda Soay sheep

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1672, 2009, Pages 3477-3485

  Hayward, Adam D ^a   Wilson, Alastair J ^a   Pilkington, Jill G ^a   Pemberton, Josephine M ^a   Kruuk, Loeske E B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Environmental dependence; Faecal egg counts; Immunosenescence; Soay sheep; Strongyle helminths

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; AGING; CHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FECES; PARASITE RESISTANCE; SENESCENCE; SHEEP;

AGING; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HABITAT; HELMINTH; LIFESPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SHEEP; STRESS;

OVIS ARIES; VERMES;

AGING; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; SCOTLAND; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 70349612501     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0906     Document Type: Article

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