Feather micro-organisms and uropygial antimicrobial defences in a colonial passerine bird

Functional Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1097-1102

  Møller, Anders P ^a   Czirjak, Gabor Á ^b,c   Heeb, Philipp ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Barn swallow; Colony size; Fungi; Uropygial gland

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; FEATHER; FUNGUS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MIGRATORY POPULATION; PASSERINE; POPULATION REGULATION;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 70449350389     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01594.x     Document Type: Article

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