Ontogenetic changes in innate immune function in captive and wild subspecies of prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido spp.)

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 633-638

  Meier, Samuel A ^a   Fassbinder Orth, Carol A ^b   Karasov, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ecoimmunology; endangered species; immune ontogeny; innate immunity; lysozyme; maternal immunoglobulin; natural antibodies; prairie chicken; Tympanuchus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; ANTIBODY; AVIFAUNA; BIRD; CAPTIVE POPULATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENZYME; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; MORTALITY; ONTOGENY; PRAIRIE; SUBPOPULATION; SUBSPECIES; WILD POPULATION;

TETRAONIDAE; TYMPANUCHUS; TYMPANUCHUS CUPIDO; TYMPANUCHUS CUPIDO ATTWATERI; TYMPANUCHUS CUPIDO PINNATUS;

EID: 84875746412     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: 19372817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.487     Document Type: Article

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