Coccidian infection causes oxidative damage in greenfinches.

The main tenet of immunoecology is that individual variation in immune responsiveness is caused by the costs of immune responses to the hosts. Oxidative damage resulting from the excessive production of reactive oxygen species during immune response is hypothesized to form one of such costs. We test...

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Main Authors: Tuul Sepp, Ulvi Karu, Jonathan D Blount, Elin Sild, Marju Männiste, Peeter Hõrak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3352913?pdf=render