Immune challenge affects female condition and egg size in the grey partridge

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Volumn 313 A, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 597-604

  Cucco, Marco ^a   Pellegrino, Irene ^a   Malacarne, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIDIN; HEN EGG LYSOZYME; LYSOZYME;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; EGG; FEMALE; GALLIFORMES; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; NEWCASTLE DISEASE PARAMYXOVIRUS; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; AVIDIN; EGGS; FEMALE; GALLIFORMES; IMMUNIZATION; MURAMIDASE; NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCTION;

NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS; PERDIX PERDIX;

EID: 77958466492     PISSN: 19325223     EISSN: 19325231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.635     Document Type: Article

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