Heterozygosity is linked to the costs of immunity in nestling great tits (Parus major)

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 4815-4827

  Voegeli, Beatrice ^a   Saladin, Verena ^a   Wegmann, Michèle ^a   Richner, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Heterozygosity fitness correlation; Immunity; Marker functionality; Parasites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888391815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.854     Document Type: Article

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