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No evidence that carotenoid pigments boost either immune or antioxidant defenses in a songbird

Dietary carotenoids have been proposed to boost immune system and antioxidant functions in vertebrate animals, but studies aimed at testing these physiological functions of carotenoids have often failed to fin...

Rebecca E. Koch, Andreas N. Kavazis, Dennis Hasselquist… in Nature Communications (2018)