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Social and endocrine correlates of immune function in meerkats: implications for the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis
Social status can mediate effects on the immune system, with profound consequences for individual health; nevertheless, most investigators of status-related disparities in free-ranging animals have used faecal parasite burdens to proxy immune function in the males of male-dominant species. We instea...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society Publishing
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6124081/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30225031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180435 |