Compensatory growth in nestling Zebra Finches impacts body composition but not adaptive immune function

Auk

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 396-406

  Killpack, Tess L ^a   Tie, Dan Nan ^a   Karasov, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody; Catch up growth; Developmental plasticity; Food restriction; Keyhole limpet hemocyanin; Taeniopygia guttata; Tissue maturity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BODY MASS; COMPENSATION; GROWTH; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NESTLING; PASSERINE;

TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84908599987     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/AUK-14-1.1     Document Type: Article

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