The carotenoid conundrum: Improved nutrition boosts plasma carotenoid levels but not immune benefits of carotenoid supplementation

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-43

  Peters, Anne ^a,b   Magdeburg, Steffen ^a   Delhey, Kaspar ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Condition; Honest signaling; Immuno ecology; Plumage coloration

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; XANTHOPHYLL;

ANTIOXIDANT; BODY MASS; CAROTENOID; COLOR; DIET; DIGESTIBILITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOLT; NUTRITION; PASSERINE; PLASMA; PLUMAGE; PROTEIN; SIGNALING; VITAMIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EATING; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; CAROTENOIDS; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EATING; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; INFLAMMATION; LUTEIN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; SONGBIRDS;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 79954426059     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-1921-4     Document Type: Article

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