Antioxidant defenses predict long-term survival in a passerine bird

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Saino, Nicola ^a   Caprioli, Manuela ^a   Romano, Maria ^a   Boncoraglio, Giuseppe ^a,b   Rubolini, Diego ^a   Ambrosini, Roberto ^c   Bonisoli Alquati, Andrea ^a   Romano, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDICTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SAMPLING; SEX; SURVIVAL TIME; SWALLOW (BIRD); WILD ANIMAL; AGING; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL; TAIL; TIME;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; PASSERIFORMES;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; FEMALE; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWALLOWS; TAIL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955872059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019593     Document Type: Article

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