Behavioral responses to immune-system activation in an anuran (the cane toad, Bufo marinus): Field and laboratory studies

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-86

  Llewellyn, D ^a   Brown, G P ^a   Thompson, M B ^a   Shine, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BODY TEMPERATURE; FROG; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLYSACCHARIDE; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMOREGULATION; TOAD;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BUFO MARINUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

AUSTRALIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUFO MARINUS;

EID: 78751656598     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657609     Document Type: Article

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