Mounting a specific immune response increases energy expenditure of the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum (tuco-tuco): Implications for intraspecific and interspecific variation in immunological traits

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 715-724

  Cutrera, A P ^a   Zenuto, R R ^a   Luna, F ^a   Antenucci, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Antibody response; Life history; Metabolic costs

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; RODENT; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ENERGY METABOLISM; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RODENTIA; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CTENOMYIDAE; CTENOMYS TALARUM; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 76749142484     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.037887     Document Type: Article

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