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Immune Activation Reduces Sperm Quality in the Great Tit

Mounting an immune response against pathogens incurs costs to organisms by its effects on important life-history traits, such as reproductive investment and survival. As shown recently, immune activation produces large amounts of reactive species and is suggested to induce oxidative stress. Sperm ar...

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Autores principales: Losdat, Sylvain, Richner, Heinz, Blount, Jonathan D., Helfenstein, Fabrice
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21765955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022221