Interrelations among immune defense indexes reflect major components of the immune system in a Free-Living Vertebrate

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Palacios, Maria G ^a   Cunnick, Joan E ^a   Winkler, David W ^b   Vleck, Carol M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; ANTIBODY; BIOASSAY; BODY CONDITION; CELL ORGANELLE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SWALLOW (BIRD); T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; B-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SWALLOWS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ANIMALIA; TACHYCINETA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855829434     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/663311     Document Type: Article

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