Nestling cell-mediated immune response, body mass and hatching date as predictors of local recruitment in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

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Mouth coloration of nestlings covaries with offspring quality and influences parental feeding behavior (2007, background): “Greater wing web swelling indicates a stronger cell-mediated immune response and, hence, presumably better condition (Cichon and Dubiec 2005; Moreno et al. 2005).”
Physiological condition and immune function in great tits (Parus major L.): sources of variation and trade-offs in relation to growth (2006, background): “Although PHA test only captures part of immune function (Martin et al. 2006), it has become popular among field ornithologists because it allows rapid and convenient estimation of in vivo cell-mediated immune response in the wild (Moreno et al. 2005).”
Evidence for the signaling function of egg color in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca (2005, methodology): “Nestlings were subjected to the same PHA protocol as females (Morales et al., 2004; Moreno et al., 2005).”
Host condition and host immunity affect parasite fitness in a bird–ectoparasite system (2007, background): “Previous studies have shown that the PHA-induced swelling is correlated with nestling survival (Christe et al. 1998; Hõrak et al. 1999) and the probability of recruiting locally (Moreno et al. 2005).”