Handling ‘immunocompetence’ in ecological studies: do we operate with confused terms?

Melanin-based coloration is related to parasite intensity and cellular immune response in an urban free living bird: the feral pigeon Columba livia

(2011) Lisa Jacquin et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Wild immunology

(2011) AMY B. PEDERSEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Immunity and mate choice: a new outlook

(2010) Jonathan P. Drury   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Functional analysis of the skin-swelling response to phytohaemagglutinin

(2010) Michal Vinkler et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Uropygial gland size correlates with feather holes, body condition and wingbar size in the house sparrow Passer domesticus

(2010) Gregorio Moreno-Rueda   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

MHC heterozygosity and survival in red junglefowl

(2010) KIRSTY WORLEY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ecological immunology of bird-ectoparasite systems

(2010) Jeb P. Owen et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Male coloration reveals different components of immunocompetence in ostriches, Struthio camelus

(2009) Maud Bonato et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Seasonal, sexual and developmental differences in hoopoe Upupa epops preen gland morphology and secretions: evidence for a role of bacteria

(2009) Manuel Martín-Vivaldi et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Disease spread, susceptibility and infection intensity: vicious circles?

(2009) Pablo M. Beldomenico et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

MHC haplotype involvement in avian resistance to an ectoparasite

(2008) Jeb P. Owen et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

Introduction. Ecological immunology

(2008) H. Schulenburg et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Immunity in a variable world

(2008) B. P Lazzaro et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES