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Fig. 3 | Immunity & Ageing

Fig. 3

From: Sex-specific innate immunity and ageing in long-lived fresh water turtles (Kinosternon flavescens: Kinosternidae)

Fig. 3

Innate Immunity is significantly higher in male than female adult K. flavescens. Back transformed least-square means ±1 SE for A) bactericidal competence (y-axis is proportion of E. coli colonies killed) and B) natural antibodies (y-axis is maximum dilution titre at which haemagglutination of rabbit red blood cells occurs) and complement-mediated lysis (maximum dilution titre at which lysis of rabbit red blood cells occurs). Asterisks represent a significant sex difference for a given immune measure. (See Table 2 for statistical output). LS means: BC = 0.37, 0.62; NAbs = 4.0, 4.6; Lys = 8.2, 9.0

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Immunity & Ageing

ISSN: 1742-4933

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