Measures of the Constitutive Immune System Are Linked to Diet and Roosting Habits of Neotropical Bats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Schneeberger, Karin ^a,b   Czirják, Gábor Á ^a   Voigt, Christian C ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BAT; BODY MASS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ECOLOGY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NONHUMAN; SLEEP;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DIET; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; HOMING BEHAVIOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872357458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054023     Document Type: Article

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