Complex interplay of body condition, life history, and prevailing environment shapes immune defenses of garter snakes in the wild

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 547-558

  Palacios, Maria G ^a   Cunnick, Joan E ^a   Bronikowski, Anne M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BODY CONDITION; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LIFE HISTORY; PLASMA; SNAKE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SERUM BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BODY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; SNAKES;

EID: 84883484699     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/672371     Document Type: Article

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