Repeatability and individual correlates of microbicidal capacity of bird blood

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 537-540

  Tieleman, B Irene ^a,b   Croese, Elsemiek ^a   Helm, Barbara ^b   Versteegh, Maaike A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Ecological immunology; Immune function; Microbicidal ability of blood; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; WINTER;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SAXICOLA TORQUATA;

EID: 77953025136     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.04.011     Document Type: Article

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