Unravelling the relationship between animal growth and immune response during micro-parasitic infections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Doeschl Wilson, Andrea B ^a   Brindle, Will ^a   Emmans, Gerry ^a   Kyriazakis, Ilias ^b,c  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWTH CURVE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROPARASITE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITOSIS; PHENOTYPE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETICS; GROWTH; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNE SYSTEM PROCESSES; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARASITIC DISEASES; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 70449412140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007508     Document Type: Article

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