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Kirk C. Klasing is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with specific attention to subfields such as Animal Science and Zoology, Parasitology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Infectious Diseases, and Ecology.

Klasing's work addresses a variety of main topics, including:

  • Animal Nutrition and Physiology
  • Bird parasitology and diseases
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Recent papers authored by Klasing include:

  • Stress in paradise: effects of elevated corticosterone on immunity and avian malaria resilience in a Hawaiian passerine (2021), Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Patterns of annual and seasonal immune investment in a temporal reproductive opportunist (2020), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Large Mammals Have More Powerful Antibacterial Defenses Than Expected from Their Metabolic Rates (2020), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Variation in immunity and health in response to introduced avian malaria in an endemic Hawaiian songbird (2021), Animal Conservation
  • Anti-microbial activity of whole blood and plasma collected from Anna's Hummingbirds (Calypte anna) against three different microbes (2020), PLoS ONE

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Klasing include:

  • Elizabeth M. Schultz
  • Thomas P. Hahn
  • Gabrielle Names
  • Jamie M. Cornelius
  • Kathleen E. Hunt

Publication venues where Klasing has contributed multiple works include:

  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Animal Conservation
  • PLoS ONE

In addition to journal articles, Klasing has contributed to book publications, including a title published by CABI eBooks:

  • Comparative Avian Nutrition (2022)

Best Publications

  • Comparative avian nutrition

    Kirk C. Klasing

  • A hemolysis-hemagglutination assay for characterizing constitutive innate humoral immunity in wild and domestic birds.

    Kevin D. Matson;Robert E. Ricklefs;Kirk C. Klasing

  • Immunologically mediated growth depression in chicks: influence of feed intake, corticosterone and interleukin-1.

    Klasing Kc;Laurin De;Peng Rk;Fry Dm

  • Phytohemagglutinin-induced skin swelling in birds : histological support for a classic immunoecological technique

    Lynn B. Martin;Lynn B. Martin;Peggy Han;Jason Lewittes;Joshua R. Kuhlman

  • Nutrition and the immune system

    K C Klasing

  • Nutritional Aspects of Leukocytic Cytokines

    Kirk C. Klasing

  • Quantifying and comparing constitutive immunity across avian species

    Sam Millet;Jennie Bennett;Kelly A. Lee;Michaela Hau

  • A role for immunology in invasion biology

    Kelly A. Lee;Kirk C. Klasing

  • Constitutive innate immunity is a component of the pace-of-life syndrome in tropical birds

    B Irene Tieleman;Joseph B Williams;Robert E Ricklefs;Kirk C Klasing

  • Prevention of Immunologic Stress Contributes to the Growth-Permitting Ability of Dietary Antibiotics in Chicks

    Eugeni Roura;Josep Homedes;Kirk C. Klasing

  • Capture Stress and the Bactericidal Competence of Blood and Plasma in Five Species of Tropical Birds

    Kevin D. Matson;B. Irene Tieleman;Kirk C. Klasing

  • The effect of light intensity on the behavior, eye and leg health, and immune function of broiler chickens

    R. A. Blatchford;K. C. Klasing;H. L. Shivaprasad;P. S. Wakenell

  • Relationship between the level of dietary vitamin E and the immune response of broiler chickens.

    T. V. Leshchinsky;K. C. Klasing

  • Nutrition of Birds in the Order Psittaciformes: A Review

    Elizabeth A. Koutsos;Kevin D. Matson;Kirk C. Klasing

  • Rice expressing lactoferrin and lysozyme has antibiotic-like properties when fed to chicks.

    Brooke D. Humphrey;Ning Huang;Kirk C. Klasing

  • Evolution of sweet taste perception in hummingbirds by transformation of the ancestral umami receptor

    Maude W. Baldwin;Yasuka Toda;Tomoya Nakagita;Mary J. O'Connell

  • Constitutive immune defences correlate with life-history variables in tropical birds.

    K. A. Lee;Martin Wikelski;W. D. Robinson;T. R. Robinson

  • No simple answers for ecological immunology: relationships among immune indices at the individual level break down at the species level in waterfowl

    Kevin D Matson;Alan A Cohen;Kirk C Klasing;Robert E Ricklefs

  • Maternal Carotenoid Status Modifies the Incorporation of Dietary Carotenoids into Immune Tissues of Growing Chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus)

    Elizabeth A. Koutsos;Andrew J. Clifford;C. Christopher Calvert;Kirk C. Klasing

  • Divergence of the inflammatory response in two types of chickens.

    Tatiana V. Leshchinsky;Kirk C. Klasing

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Wikelski
Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Thomas P. Hahn
Thomas P. Hahn University of California, Davis
Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs University of Missouri–St. Louis
B. Irene Tieleman
B. Irene Tieleman University of Groningen
Lynn B. Martin
Lynn B. Martin University of South Florida
Joseph B. Williams
Joseph B. Williams The Ohio State University
Kevin D. Matson
Kevin D. Matson Wageningen University & Research
W. Douglas Robinson
W. Douglas Robinson Oregon State University
Jose Perez
Jose Perez Autonomous University of Barcelona
R.L. Baldwin
R.L. Baldwin University of California, Davis

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