Juvenile nutritional stress affects growth rate, adult organ mass, and innate immune function in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 769-781

  Kriengwatana, Buddhamas ^a   Wada, Haruka ^a   Macmillan, Alexander ^a   MacDougall Shackleton, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; JUVENILE; NUTRITION; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPE; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FINCH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FINCHES; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORGAN SIZE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84887680368     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/673260     Document Type: Article

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