Chronic stress in infancy fails to affect body size and immune response of adult female blue-footed boobies or their offspring

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 390-398

  Carmona Isunza, María Cristina ^a   Núñez de la Mora, Alejandra ^a   Drummond, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE CLASS; AVIFAUNA; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BODY SIZE; DISPERSAL; GROWTH RATE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NATURAL SELECTION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEABIRD; STEROID; SURVIVORSHIP;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; SULA NEBOUXII;

EID: 84880041543     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2013.00057.x     Document Type: Article

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