Immune activation reduces sperm quality in the great tit

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Losdat, Sylvain ^a   Richner, Heinz ^a   Blount, Jonathan D ^b   Helfenstein, Fabrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CAROTENOID; FREE RADICAL; MALONALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARUS MAJOR; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ANIMAL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEATHER; FEMALE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AVES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEATHERS; FEMALE; IMMUNITY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; PIGMENTATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; VITAMIN E;

EID: 79960198781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022221     Document Type: Article

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