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Age-Related Relationships between Innate Immunity and Plasma Carotenoids in an Obligate Avian Scavenger

Variation in immunity is influenced by allocation trade-offs that are expected to change between age-classes as a result of the different environmental and physiological conditions that individuals encounter over their lifetime. One such trade-off occurs with carotenoids, which must be acquired with...

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Autores principales: López-Rull, Isabel, Hornero-Méndez, Dámaso, Frías, Óscar, Blanco, Guillermo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26544885
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141759