Stress, Behaviour and Immunity in Wild-Caught Wintering Great Tits (Parus major)

Ethology

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 397-406

  Krams, Indrikis ^a,b,c   Vrublevska, Jolanta ^b   Cirule, Dina ^b,d   Kivleniece, Inese ^b   Krama, Tatjana ^b   Rantala, Markus J ^c   Kaasik, Ants ^a   Hõrak, Peeter ^a   Sepp, Tuul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b DAUGAVPILS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d INSTITUTE OF FOOD SAFETY   (Latvia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ANTIBODY; AVIFAUNA; CAPTIVITY; DAMAGE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEATHER; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SONGBIRD; TOLERANCE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 84876102408     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12075     Document Type: Article

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