Microorganisms, flight, reproduction, and predation in birds

• Main Author: Al rubaiee, Zaid
• Other Authors: Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), Møller, Anders Pape
• Format: Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Hirundo rustica; Micro-organismes; Bactéries; Accipiter gentilis; Bacillus megatherium; Doublures en plumes de nids; Champignons; Microorganisms; Feather lining of nests; Bactéria; Fungi; envir; socio
• Online Access: http://www.theses.fr/2017SACLS097/document

The fitness costs that macro- and micro-parasites impose on hosts can be explained by three main factors: (1) Hosts use immune responses against parasites to prevent or control infection. Immune responses require energy and nutrients to produce and/or activate immune cells and immunoglobulins, and t...