Flight performance of western sandpipers, Calidris mauri, remains uncompromised when mounting an acute phase immune response

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2752-2759

  Nebel, Silke ^a   Buehler, Deborah M ^b,c   MacMillan, Alexander ^a   Guglielmo, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calidris mauri; Innate immune function; Trade off; Western sandpiper; Wind tunnel; Zoonotic diseases

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; HAPTOGLOBIN;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CALIDRIS MAURI; CANADA; CHARADRIIFORMES; FLYING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNE FUNCTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TRADE-OFF; WESTERN SANDPIPER; WIND TUNNEL; ZOONOTIC DISEASES;

CALIDRIS MAURI; INNATE IMMUNE FUNCTION; TRADE-OFF; WESTERN SANDPIPER; WIND TUNNEL; ZOONOTIC DISEASES;

ACUTE-PHASE REACTION; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHARADRIIFORMES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HAPTOGLOBINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LINEAR MODELS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880121884     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.083204     Document Type: Article

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