Vertebrate sickness behaviors: Adaptive and integrated neuroendocrine immune responses

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 202-214

  Adelman, James S ^a   Martin, Lynn B ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 76149109787     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icp028     Document Type: Article

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