Offspring pay sooner, parents pay later: Experimental manipulation of body mass reveals trade-offs between immune function, reproduction and survival

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hegemann, Arne ^a   Matson, Kevin D ^a   Flinks, Heiner ^b   Tieleman, B I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avian; Birds; Carry over effect; Cost of reproduction; Ecoimmunology; Ecophysiology; Immunity; Life history

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890252301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-10-77     Document Type: Article

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