Experimentally elevated testosterone levels enhance courtship behaviour and territoriality but depress acquired immune response in Red Bishops Euplectes orix

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Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-58

  Edler, Ralf ^a   Goymann, Wolfgang ^b   Schwabl, Ingrid ^b   Friedl, Thomas W P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acquired immune response; Heterophil lymphocyte ratio; Immunocompetence handicap hypothesis; Polygynous weaverbird; Repeated PHA test; Territorial behaviour

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COURTSHIP; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HORMONE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PASSERINE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; TERRITORIALITY; TRADE-OFF;

EUPLECTES ORIX;

EID: 78650149535     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01075.x     Document Type: Article

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