Do leucocyte profiles reflect temporal and sexual variation in body condition over the breeding cycle in Southern Rockhopper Penguins?

• Published in: Journal of Ornithology
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag 2012
• Subjects: Southern Rockhopper Penguin; Breeding biology; Immunology; G/L ratios; Body condition; Stress; Sog; Rockhopper penguin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62070; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-011-0658-5

Abstract Southern Rockhopper Penguins (Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome) have a strongly synchronised breeding cycle with a fixed pattern of nest attendance for males and females. We studied leucocyte profiles and the development of granulocyte/lymphocyte (G/L) ratios as an indicator of stress. Variat...