Do natural antibodies compensate for humoral immunosenescence in tropical pythons?

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Functional Ecology 2011, 25, 813–817

doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01860.x

Do natural antibodies compensate for humoral immunosenescence in tropical pythons? Beata Ujvari1,2 and Thomas Madsen*,2,3,4 1

Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; 2School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; 3Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, S-22362 Lund, Sweden; and 4Animal Ecology Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest Hungary

Summary 1. Ageing is frequently claimed to result in an age-dependent deterioration in immune function. 2. Our results, however, based on 30 known-aged water pythons (Liasis fuscus; age ranging from
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