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Article: Immune responses vary according to age, sex
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- The Hindustan Times
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- September 11, 2008
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Washington, Sept. 11 -- A study on zebra finches has revealed that immune responses amongst females matured slowly while transitioning from nest-bound juveniles to adults, while those in males showed dramatic variation potentially due to the costs of moulting into their colourful sexually dimorphic plumage.
Evolutionary physiologists behind this research -- Oliver Love, Katrina Salvante, James Dale, and Tony Williams -- say that examined how a simple immune response varied at different life stages across the lifespan of individual zebra finches for their study, published in the September issue of the American ...