How do migratory species stay healthy over the annual cycle? A conceptual model for immune function and for resistance to disease

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 346-357

  Buehler, Deborah M ^a   Tieleman, B Irene ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHARADRIIFORMES; CONFERENCE PAPER; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

CALIDRIS CANUTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956281788     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icq055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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