Scharsack, Jörn Peter; Kalbe, Martin: Differences in susceptibility and immune responses of three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from lake and river ecotypes to sequential infections [...]
Inhalt
- Background
- Methods
- Experimental sticklebacks and parasites
- Parasite exposure and dissection protocol
- Isolation of head kidney leukocytes
- Flow cytometric analysis of freshly isolated head kidney leukocytes
- Respiratory burst activity of head kidney leukocytes
- Cell cycle analysis
- Statistical analysis
- Ethical note
- Results
- Infection success
- Respiratory burst activity of head kidney leukocytes
- Proliferation of lymphocytes and monocytes
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Competing interests
- Authors’ contributions
- Acknowledgements
- References