Do individual branches of immune defence correlate? A comparative case study of scavenging and non-scavenging birds

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Disease ecology meets ecological immunology: understanding the links between organismal immunity and infection dynamics in natural populations (2011, background): “…interpreted (Kennedy &Nager 2006) in part owing to challenges in linking immune measures to resistance or recovery from specific pathogens, and also because of an almost-universal lack of correlation among immune assays within single individuals or species (Blount et al. 2003; Matson et al. 2006).”
Individual quality mediates trade‐offs between reproductive effort and immune function in tree swallows (2005, background): “However, without specific tests it is unclear how the different arms of the immune system respond to stress and somatic resource allocation (Blount et al. 2003).”
SEASONAL DIFFERENCES IN IMMUNOLOGICAL CONDITION OF THREE SPECIES OF THRUSHES (2006, background): “Lymphocytes operate entirely in acquired immune responses; therefore, they provide an indirect measure of acquired immune function, i.e., cell-mediated and humoral immunity (Blount et al. 2003).”