Cutaneous immune activity, but not innate immune responsiveness, covaries with mass and environment in nestling house wrens (Troglodytes aedon)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 512-518

  Forsman, Anna M ^a,b   Sakaluk, Scott K ^a   Thompson, Charles F ^a   Vogel, Laura A ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BROOD REARING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NESTLING; PROTEIN; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; IMMUNITY, INNATE; SKIN; SONGBIRDS;

TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES AEDON; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77952031862     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649894     Document Type: Article

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