Research article
Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep
1 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
2 Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group, Department of Anthropology, Durham University, DH1 3HN, UK
3 Department of Neurology, Boston VA Medical Centre and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02130, USA
4 Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:7 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-7
Published: 9 January 2009Additional files
Additional file 1:
Data on sleep, immunity and infection. Species specific values for the time spent in sleep and its different states, the number of white blood cells in peripheral blood, and the degree of parasitism.
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Statistical analyses with alternate data restrictions. Alternate analyses in which the relationship between sleep and parasitism is restricted to EEG studies, and in which the relationship between sleep and immune defence does not control for activity period.
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