Immune profile predicts survival and reflects senescence in a small, long-lived mammal, the greater sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Schneeberger, Karin ^a,b   Courtiol, Alexandre ^a   Czirják, Gábor Á ^a   Voigt, Christian C ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BAT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE STATUS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIFESPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; SACCOPTERYX BILINEATA; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SURVIVAL RATE; AGE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COSTA RICA; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; LONGEVITY; PARASITOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; SACCOPTERYX BILINEATA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; COSTA RICA; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; LONGEVITY;

EID: 84907457149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108268     Document Type: Article

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