Seasonal changes in parasite load and a cellular immune response in a colour polymorphic lizard

Oecologia

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 867-874

  Huyghe, Katleen ^a,b   Van Oystaeyen, Annette ^b   Pasmans, Frank ^c   Tadić, Zoran ^d   Vanhooydonck, Bieke ^b   van Damme, Raoul ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Colour polymorphism; Immune defence; Lacertidae; Parasites; Seasonal differences

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; ECTOPARASITE; EUKARYOTE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIZARD; MITE; POLYMORPHISM; PRESSURE EFFECT; PROTEIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LIZARD; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SEASON;

ANIMALS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LIZARDS; MALE; PIGMENTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEASONS;

ACARI; IXODIDA; LACERTIDAE; PODARCIS; PODARCIS MELISELLENSIS; PRENANTHELLA EXIGUA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 77954538647     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1646-9     Document Type: Article

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