No effect of blood sampling or phytohaemagglutinin injection on postfledging survival in a wild songbird

• Published in: Ecology and evolution Vol. 6; no. 10; pp. 3107 - 3114
• Main Authors: Bowers, Emerson Keith, Sakaluk, Scott K., Thompson, Charles F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.05.2016; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Adults; Blood; Body parts; Capture-recapture studies; Capture‐mark‐recapture; house wren; Immunology; Injection; Juveniles; Locomotion; Nesting; Original Research; Recruitment; Sampling; Songbirds; Survival; Troglodytes aedon; Vertebrates; house wren; Troglodytes aedon; recruitment; Capture‐mark‐recapture

The injection of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) and sampling of blood are widely used in studies of wild vertebrates to assess components of immune and endocrine function and health state and to obtain genetic material. Despite the pervasive use of these techniques in the life sciences, their potential e...