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Wild Skylarks Seasonally Modulate Energy Budgets but Maintain Energetically Costly Inflammatory Immune Responses throughout the Annual Cycle

A central hypothesis of ecological immunology is that immune defences are traded off against competing physiological and behavioural processes. During energetically demanding periods, birds are predicted to switch from expensive inflammatory responses to less costly immune responses. Acute phase res...

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Autores principales: Hegemann, Arne, Matson, Kevin D., Versteegh, Maaike A., Tieleman, B. Irene
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3343055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22570706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036358