Sex-specific variation in brown-headed cowbird immunity following acute stress: A mechanistic approach

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-38

  Merrill, Loren ^a   Angelier, Frédéric ^b,c   O'Loghlen, Adrian L ^a   Rothstein, Stephen I ^a   Wingfield, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bactericidal capacity; Corticosteroid binding globulin; Corticosterone; Life history strategy; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; STEROID RECEPTOR; TRANSCORTIN;

BLOOD; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MECHANICAL THEORY; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; WILD POPULATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SONGBIRD; WILD ANIMAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCORTIN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 84865601888     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2281-4     Document Type: Article

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