Selection on innate immunity and body condition in Florida scrub-jays throughout an epidemic

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 552-554

  Wilcoxen, Travis E ^a   Boughton, Raoul K ^b   Schoech, Stephan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphelocoma coerulescens; Directional selection; Ecoimmunology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BODY CONDITION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; EPIDEMIC; IMMUNITY; MORTALITY; OVERWINTERING; PASSERINE;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; BLOOD; BODY CONSTITUTION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC SELECTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SONGBIRD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BODY CONSTITUTION; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLORIDA; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77957252816     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.1078     Document Type: Article

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