Kirk C. Klasing

University of California, Davis — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Animal Nutrition and Physiology(93), Bird parasitology and diseases(28), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(22), Immune Response and Inflammation(20), Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress(15)

Publications229 total

Molt dampens pro-inflammatory cytokine production during the acute phase response to lipopolysaccharide in the domestic chicken (Gallus domesticus)
Developmental & Comparative Immunology·2025· 1 cited
Symposium: Essentials of scientific writing for publications
Poultry Science·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Comparative Avian Nutrition
CABI eBooks·2022· 716 cited
No evidence of metabolic costs following adaptive immune activation or reactivation in house sparrows
Biology Letters·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
PSIII-5 Effect of Graded <i>Eimeria</i> Vaccine Challenges on Broiler Chicken Performance
Journal of Animal Science·2022Open Access
Variation in immunity and health in response to introduced avian malaria in an endemic Hawaiian songbird
Animal Conservation·2021· 6 citedOpen Access
Stress in paradise: effects of elevated corticosterone on immunity and avian malaria resilience in a Hawaiian passerine
Journal of Experimental Biology·2021· 14 citedOpen Access
Production of Broilers Fed Native Methionine from Sunflower Seed Meal and Cowpeas
EC Veterinary Science·2021
Extreme hyperallometry of mammalian antibacterial defenses
2020· 2 cited
Large Mammals Have More Powerful Antibacterial Defenses Than Expected from Their Metabolic Rates
2020· 6 citedOpen Access
Patterns of annual and seasonal immune investment in a temporal reproductive opportunist
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2020· 9 citedOpen Access
Anti-microbial activity of whole blood and plasma collected from Anna’s Hummingbirds (Calypte anna) against three different microbes
PLoS ONE·2020· 2 citedOpen Access
Cowpeas and Sunflower Seed Meal - Available Sources of Methionine for Organic Poultry Diets
EC Agriculture·2020
Supplementary material from "Patterns of annual and seasonal immune investment in a temporal reproductive opportunist"
Figshare·2020Open Access
The energy cost of feather replacement is not intrinsically inefficient
Canadian Journal of Zoology·2019· 17 cited
Nutritional Diseases
2019· 11 cited
The Effects of Body Mass on Immune Cell Concentrations of Mammals
The American Naturalist·2019· 48 cited
The effects of vaccination with keyhole limpet hemocyanin or oral administration of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis on the growth performance of immunoglobulin knockout chickens
Poultry Science·2019· 1 citedOpen Access
Patterns of annual and seasonal immune investment in a temporal reproductive opportunist
2019· 1 citedOpen Access
Constitutive innate immunity of tropical House Wrens varies with season and reproductive activity
The Auk·2019· 10 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Robert E. Ricklefs(5), Kevin D. Matson(4), Elizabeth A. Koutsos(4), Martin Wikelski(3), R. Peng(3), Brooke Humphrey(3), Kelly A. Lee(2), Michaela Hau(2), B. Irene Tieleman(2), Maude W. Baldwin(2), W. Douglas Robinson(2), Alan A. Cohen(2), E. Roura(2), D.R. Korver(2), C. C. Calvert(2), Lynn B. Martin(1), Ping Han(1), J. Lewittes(1), Joshua R. Kuhlman(1), David Laurin(1)