Multivariate immune defences and fitness in the wild: Complex but ecologically important associations among plasma antibodies, health and survival

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1779, 2014, Pages

  Nussey, Daniel H ^a   Watt, Kathryn A ^a   Clark, Abigail ^a   Pilkington, Jill G ^a   Pemberton, Josephine M ^a   Graham, Andrea L ^b   McNeilly, Tom N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti nuclear antibodies; Fitness; Immunity; Natural selection; Soay sheep; Strongyle nematodes

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTAGONISM; ANTIBODY; BODY MASS; FITNESS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NEMATODE; SHEEP; SURVIVAL; WILDERNESS AREA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTI-NUCLEAR ANTIBODIES; ARTICLE; BLOOD; FEMALE; FITNESS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RHABDITIDA; SEASON; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SOAY SHEEP; STRONGYLE NEMATODES;

ANTI-NUCLEAR ANTIBODIES; FITNESS; IMMUNITY; NATURAL SELECTION; SOAY SHEEP; STRONGYLE NEMATODES;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BLOOD; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MORTALITY; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RHABDITIDA; RHABDITIDA INFECTIONS; SEASONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; VETERINARY;

EID: 84902683158     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2931     Document Type: Article

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