Metabolic consequences of overlapping food restriction and cell-mediated immune response in a long-distance migratory shorebird, the little ringed plover Charadrius dubius

• Published in: Journal of Avian Biology
• Main Authors: Sánchez Gutiérrez, Jorge, Masero Osorio, José Antonio, Abad Gómez-Pantoja, José María, Villegas Sánchez, María Auxiliadora, Sánchez Guzmán, Juan Manuel
• Other Authors: Universidad de Extremadura. Departamento de Anatomía, Biología Celular y Zoología, Universidad de Extremadura. Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Ecología y Ciencias de la Tierra
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nordic Society Oikos 2011
• Subjects: Immune response; Respuesta inmunitaria; Birds; Aves; Metabolic rate; Tasa metabólica; 24 Ciencias de la Vida; 25 Ciencias de la Tierra y del Espacio; Andreas; Ringed Plover
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10662/20162; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-048X.2011.05323.x

Investment in immunity is commonly viewed as an energetically costly activity in birds. Although several studies have focused on the energy cost of mounting an immune response and its concomitant physiological trade-offs, nothing is known about the metabolic adjustments experienced by immunochalleng...